| UK Charity Worker Was Killed In Kabul?

UK Charity Worker Was Killed In Kabul?

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A woman working for a UK-registered charity has been shot dead near Kabul University in the Afghan capital.

Gayle Williams, 34, was a UK and South African national. She was killed by two men on a motorbike, witnesses told the BBC.

The Taleban are reported to have said they killed her because she was working for a Christian organisation called Serve Afghanistan.

In August the Taleban killed three foreign women near Kabul.

Further worries

Ms Williams was killed while walking to work, police said.

An eyewitness told the BBC that two men on a motorbike drew alongside her. One man then got off the motorbike and shot her at close range before jumping back on the bike and escaping.

Mike Lyth paid tribute to Ms Williams
Children on the street going to school also saw the incident.

“Some bullets hit her body and some hit her leg and when police got there she was dead,” interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told the AFP news agency.

The BBC’s Martin Patience in Kabul says this is not the first time that a foreigner has been killed in the Afghan capital by armed men.

But the incident will raise further concerns about the security situation in Afghanistan, our correspondent says.

In the past week, there have been three assassinations in the southern city of Kandahar, all carried out by men on motorbikes.

Operations suspended

Serve Afghanistan is a UK registered charity whose overseas staff are volunteers. It focuses on education and training for people with disabilities.

The charity’s chairman, Mike Lyth, said the staff and volunteers were in shock over the killing.

Police at the scene of the shooting
He said: “She had been there for about two-and-a-half-years and was managing a community development project focused on disabled people.

“We are deeply saddened about what has happened. She was absolutely lovely and was full of life. A sportswoman and mountaineer - she just loved that sort of thing.

“The thought of Afghanistan must have seemed an adventure for her.”

Taleban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told AFP that they killed Ms Williams “because she was working for an organisation which was preaching Christianity in Afghanistan”.

Mr Lyth believed more attacks were imminent and said: “It is happening increasingly often in countries like Afghanistan. It is a policy of the Taleban to destabilise and knock the government by knocking out all of the aid and NGOs working there.”

He said Ms Williams’s fellow volunteers needed to discuss their next course of action.

In August another aid group, the International Rescue Committee, suspended operations after three of its foreign female staff - a British-Canadian, a Canadian and a Trinidadian-American - were shot with their Afghan driver close to Kabul.

The Taleban claimed responsibility for that attack, saying the women were foreign spies.

What do you think of this? Does it not view muslims in a bad way?
Why would they kill a woman who was preaching about christainity? Is it wrong for someone to teach someone about a different religion other than islam?

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