Tragic Killing of Christian Aid Workers in Pakistan
March 12, 2010 – 10:09 amWorld Vision worker says militants dragged his colleagues into room and executed them
CDN:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 10 - Suspected Islamic militants armed with guns and grenades stormed the offices of a Christian relief and development organization in northwest Pakistan today, killing six aid workers and wounding seven others.
The gunmen besieged the offices of international humanitarian organization World Vision near Oghi, in Mansehra district, of the North West Frontier Province. Police and World Vision’s regional spokesman said the Pakistani staff members, including two women, were killed after up to 15 gunmen arrived in pick-up trucks and began firing.
“They gathered all of us in one room,” World Vision administration officer Mohammad Sajid, who was in the office at the time, told Compass. “The gunmen, some of whom had their faces covered, also snatched our mobile phones. They dragged people one by one and shifted them to an adjacent room and shot and killed them.”
Senior police officer Waqar Ahmed blamed the attack on “the same people who are destroying our schools” - a reference to Taliban militants opposed to co-education who have blown up hundreds of schools across the northwest in the past three years. “Now they want to disturb relief work in quake-hit areas,” Ahmed said.
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Report from World Vision site.
Please pray that God draws people to Himself, opening doors for gospel ministry through this tragedy.
