A foreign aid worker has been killed by Taliban extremists in central Afghanistan. The 39-year-old Swiss citizen of Salvadoran origin, a Red Cross worker, was attacked as he was travelling to Oruzgan province. Oruzgan's governor, Jan Mohammad, says Taliban fighters pulled over the man's two-car convoy in neighbouring Kandahar province and "executed" him using Kalashnikov rifles. The governor says the extremists escaped in one of the vehicles. Aid agency officials say the murder could prompt foreign relief organisations to rethink their presence in Afghanistan. Several aid groups have recently pulled out of Afghanistan over security concerns.
Taliban or carjacking bandits, not much difference.
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