Scottish aid worker killed in Afghanistan (during rescue attempt)

Source: STV.com

The 36-year-old Scot was abducted on Sunday 26 September in Kunar province in the north-east of Afghanistan along with three Afghan nationals with whom she is thought to have been working.

The Foreign Secretary William Hague said: "It is with deep sadness that I must confirm that Linda Norgrove, the British aid worker who had been held hostage in eastern Afghanistan since 26 September, was killed at the hands of her captors in the course of a rescue attempt last night.

"Working with our Allies we received information about where Linda was being held and we decided that, given the danger she was facing, her best chance of safe release was to act on that information.

"Responsibility for this tragic outcome rests squarely with the hostage takers. From the moment they took her, her life was under grave threat. Given who held her, and the danger she was in, we judged that Linda’s best chance lay in attempting to rescue her.


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