Worsening security affects Afghan aid groups

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Deteriorating security in Afghanistan is making it more difficult for aid organizations to carry out their work, the director of a group that lost four workers in a Taliban attack said Saturday.

Ciaran Donnelly, director of operations in Afghanistan for the International Rescue Committee, said the entire aid community has been affected by worsening security.

“We’re not the only NGO [nongovernment organization] to have suffered an attack. Unfortunately we suffered the most egregious and most tragic of these attacks,” he said.

Taliban fighters wielding Kalashnikov assault rifles killed four IRC workers, including three women, in an attack Wednesday in Logar province, just south of Kabul.