A Christian aid group says it has no plans to withdraw from Afghanistan, despite the killing of 10 of its members in the country's north.
The director of International Assistance Mission, Dirk Frans, on Monday released the names of the victims, including six Americans, two Afghans, one Briton and one German.
The aid workers were part of a medical team providing eye and other health care to Afghans (in Nuristan and Badakhshan provinces), when they were shot in Badakhshan province last week. The Taliban and another militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, accusing them of acting as spies and missionaries.
Frans told reporters in Kabul on Monday that the group (, which has been operating in Afghanistan since 1966,) does not proselytize and that the workers were not carrying Bibles in the local language.
Afghan authorities are also investigating whether the killings were part of an armed robbery. Frans says the lone survivor of the attack, an Afghan driver, is being questioned by the Afghan interior ministry in Kabul. VOA News
