Two foreign nationals and an Afghan were killed in a shoot-out in central Kabul today, the city's deputy police chief said.
It was unclear what prompted the exchange of fire, said Alishah Ahmadzai.
"Two foreigners and one Afghan have been killed," he said. Two people were also wounded, he said, without giving their identities.
A reporter at the scene saw one body slumped in the front seat of a four-wheeled drive vehicle. Blood was pooled just outside the vehicle, he said.
A police investigator at the scene told him there was a second body in the vehicle.
It was the second fatal shooting in the city since a British South African aid worker was shot dead on Monday while she was walking to work.
The extremist Taliban movement, waging an insurgency against the government of the president, Hamid Karzai, claimed responsibility for the killing but authorities have not confirmed they were involved.
Security has plummeted in Afghanistan in the past years with insurgent attacks on the rise as crime has surged.
*AFP
Volunteers offer workers a lifeline
Community volunteers have swung into action delivering food packages and toiletries to the men.
When provisions are distributed, the men line up in long queues for packets of rice, flour, sugar, salt, pulses, milk, biscuits, shaving kits, soap and telecom cards.
Volunteers from St Mary’s Catholic Church said some workers came to the church to pray for their families and ask for assistance.
Boxes packed with essential food items were distributed to workers in the Dubai Investments Park and Ras Al Khaimah camps last week. Workers at the Sonapur camp asked for Dh1,600 towards their gas bill.
“Especially in this year of tolerance we consider ourselves privileged to be able to lend a helping hand to our needy brothers in the Actco camp," Father Lennie Connully, parish priest of St Mary’s.
Workers spoke of their helplessness, seeing children’s marriages cancelled because of lack of money going home. Others told of their misery of being unable to return home when a parent died.
“More than daily food, they are worried about not sending money home for their family,” said Kusum Dutta, a volunteer who works with the Indian consulate.
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