BMJ  2004;328:1398 (12 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7453.1398

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Charity suspends work in Afghanistan after five staff are killed

Utrecht

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The medical aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended activities in Afghanistan after five staff working for its Dutch branch were killed in one of the worst attacks on humanitarian workers since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

A Norwegian doctor, Egil Tynaes, died along with Dutch logistics expert Willem Kwint, Belgian project coordinator Hélène de Beir, their Afghan translator, Fasil Ahmad, and their driver, Besmillah.

Their vehicle was apparently hit by gunfire and grenades on a road near Khairkhana in the northwestern province of Badghis last week.

Dr Egil Tynaes, aged 62, was a senior doctor at a clinic in Bergen. He had used periods of leave to work for aid organisations and had first worked for MSF in Afghanistan in 2002. He returned in March this year working on a tuberculosis project and training local staff.

Hélène de Beir, aged 29, had studied international human rights . . . [Full text of this article]

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