KABUL, Sept 10: Five Afghan aid workers from a Western organisation have been killed in the latest violence blamed on a resurgent Taliban militia, an Afghan official said on Wednesday.

The aid workers from the Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees (DACAAR) were killed in an ambush while travelling in an agency car in Moqur district of Ghazni province to the southwest of the capital on Monday evening, the official said.

“The information that I have got says that five of DACAAR’s Afghan personnel have been killed and another wounded in the ambush,” Javid, an aide to Ghazni’s governor, said.

“Who else would have done this except the Taliban?”

Moqur is on the main highway between the capital and the south which is being rebuilt with foreign aid. Since May there have been several attacks and ambushes on the road by suspected militants from the Taliban regime ousted in late 2001.—Reuters