US charity confirms four Pakistani staff killed

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, March 10, 2010 (AFP) - A spokesman for US-based charity World Vision said four Pakistani staff were killed Wednesday in a militant attack on their offices in the northwest of the country.

"We have been attacked," Rienk van Velzen, World Vision's regional communications director, told AFP by telephone from the Netherlands.

"So far unfortunately four colleagues have been killed. A number of people are injured. I heard six, but that has not been confirmed by my colleagues... four local World Vision staff have been killed so far."


by Marc Burleigh and Clarens Renois
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