World Food Programme distribution suspended in northern province after five vehicles ambushed by gunmen and workers held overnightGunmen in northern Afghanistan captured and torched five vehicles belonging to the World Food Programme (WFP) at the weekend,in another sign of the increasingly hostile environment facing humanitarian workers in the war-torn country.
The trucks, which were marked with WFP logos, and were returning to Faizabad,the capital of Badakhshan province, from a food distribution point when an armed group stopped them. The gunmen held the drivers for one night and, and after releasing them,burned the empty trucks. No group has taken responsibility for the incident, which the WFP said it was investigating. It said none of the drivers were harmed.
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Source: theguardian.com