Death toll rises to 6 in Afghanistan's 'Save the Children' attack
Six employees were killed on the spot, many of them shot at close range, in one of the worst attacks on the Red Cross, while two other staffers were abducted and later released after seven months in captivity.
Carolyn Miles, president of Save the Children, expressed "profound sadness" at the killing of the NGO's staff members in Jalalabad.
The aid group has been working in Afghanistan since 1976.
"Our primary concern remains to secure the safety of all of our staff", a group representative said in an emailed statement.
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In a statement, Save the Children said it was shocked and appalled at the violence carried out against dedicated humanitarians. "We have temporarily suspended our operations across the country following today's events, however we remain fully committed to helping the most deprived children of Afghanistan".
"An explosion rocked the area and right after that children and people started running away", Ghulam Nabi, who was nearby when the bomb exploded, said.
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Jalalabad is the capital of Nangarhar province, on the porous border with Pakistan.
While no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. The country recorded the second highest number of attacks against aid workers worldwide in 2016. But in the wake of attacks like Wednesday's assault on Save the Children, those promises are ringing increasingly hollow.
The attack followed a deadly weekend siege of the Intercontinental Hotel in the capital Kabul in which 22 people were killed, including 14 foreigners.
The US state department confirmed that four US citizens were killed in the landmark hotel attack, but did not provide details about their identities.
A member of the security forces was also killed. "We express our condolences and thoughts to the victims and families".
Medecins Sans Frontieres, also known as Doctors Without Borders, suspended its activities in northern Afghanistan's Kunduz province after a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation airstrike on a hospital in October 2015 killed 42 people-including 24 patients and 14 staff-as US -backed forces battled Taliban fighters.
In eastern Ghazni province, meanwhile, four Afghan policemen were killed after their checkpoint came under attack by insurgents, said Arif Noori, spokesman for the provincial governor.
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