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General News 8/13/2008 at 11:52 AM EDT

Aid women killed in Afghanistan South of Kabul

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Aid workers, 3 womenand their driver were shot. The Agency Co-ordinating Body for Afghan Relief (Acbar)is interviewed by BBC News. In what has been a safer part, violence escalates until longtime activists like International Rescue Committee (where these people worked) are pulling out for security reasons.

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