KABUL -- Six Red Cross workers have been killed and two others are missing in northern Afghanistan, the international charity said Wednesday (February 8), underscoring the growing dangers faced by aid workers in the war-battered country.
They were killed in Jawzjan, the charity added, without revealing their nationalities or who was behind the incident.
Aid workers in Afghanistan have increasingly become casualties of a surge in militant violence in recent years.
In April 2015 the bullet-riddled bodies of five Afghan workers for Save the Children were found after their abduction in Uruzgan Province.
