2 foreign workers shot dead in Afghanistan

By Masoud Popalzai, CNN

 

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Two foreign workers with an international aid organization were shot and killed in the western Afghanistan city of Herat on Thursday, the provincial governor said.

The women, who were believed to be Finnish, worked for the International Assistance Mission, said Governor Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi said.

They were riding a taxi through the city when men in a motorbike attacked them, Wahidi said.

In 2010,10 workers with the mission - six Americans, two Afghans, a Briton and a German -- were killed by gunmen in Badakhshan, a remote northeastern region of the country.