The only survivor of the massacre that took the lives of ten humanitarian aid workers in Afghanistan has pieced together the last moments of the group working for the Geneva-registered, faith-based organization International Assistance Mission (IAM).
The man has described to investigators how six Americans, two Afghans, one German and a Briton were killed on August 5 in remote northern Afghanistan.
According to his account the victims were executed one by one.
Meanwhile the bodies of four of the six Americans killed have been repatriated back to the US. The two remaining victims will be buried in Afghanistan.
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Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Two international organizations based in Geneva have issued urgent appeals to the captors of their employees to release them unharmed. Rebels in the Philippines, who are holding three ICRC (International Red Cross) employees, including Swiss Andreas Notter, are threatening to decapitate one of them if the army does not leave the area where they are held. Tuesday morning the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) told the kidnappers of John Solecki in Pakstan that they are entirely responsible for his health, expressing concern over the lack of news in the past two weeks.
