Aid group suspends Afghan work after murders
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![The bodies of three female aid workers and their Afghan driver, killed in an ambush, are taken to a Kabul morgue. [Reuters]](http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/img/news/gallery/afghan_aid_body_rtr_140808.jpg "The bodies of three female aid workers and their Afghan driver, killed in an ambush, are taken to a Kabul morgue. [Reuters]")
The bodies of three female aid workers and their Afghan driver, killed in an ambush, are taken to a Kabul morgue. [Reuters]
The International Rescue Committee, which has worked in Afghanistan for 25 years, is suspending relief work indefinitely after three of its female aid workers and their Afghan driver were shot dead by Taliban insurgents.
The killings, the deadliest in years involving international aid staff, came amid warnings about deteriorating security.
The women a British-Canadian, a Canadian and a Trinidadian-American were working with refugees in Afghanistan.
The women were in two vehicles on their way from Kabul to Logar province, some 50 kilometres when they were ambushed. One driver was killed another seriously injured.
A spokesman for the Taliban, Zabihullah Mujahed, says men from his militia had ambushed a two-vehicle convoy in Logar province killing several of the passengers.
