KABUL, April 11: An Afghan man with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) was murdered on Wednesday in the latest of a series of attacks on aid workers.

A UN spokesman said at a press briefing here that the man was shot dead in Mazar-i-Sharif. He said there was no known motive for the attack but at this stage it did not look like a robbery.

“Shah Sayed was assassinated in his house yesterday (Wednesday) ... Three people entered his house as he was in his bedroom, they took him out and shot him dead,” the spokesman said.

The UN special representative to Afghanistan said the murder was part of a “disturbing pattern of attacks on civilians.”