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| UK charity worker killed in Kabul | UK charity worker killed in Kabul |
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| A woman working for a UK-registered charity has been shot dead near Kabul University in the Afghan capital. | A woman working for a UK-registered charity has been shot dead near Kabul University in the Afghan capital. |
| The woman, Gayle Williams, was a UK and South African national. She was killed by two men on a motorbike, witnesses told the BBC. | The woman, Gayle Williams, was a UK and South African national. She was killed by two men on a motorbike, witnesses told the BBC. |
| The Taleban are reported to have said they killed her because she was working for a Christian organisation called Serve Afghanistan. | |
| In August the Taleban killed three foreign women near Kabul. | |
| Further worries | Further worries |
| Ms Williams was killed while walking to work, police said. | Ms Williams was killed while walking to work, police said. |
| An eyewitness told the BBC that two men on a motorbike drew alongside her. One man then got off the motorbike and shot her at close range before jumping back on the bike and escaping. | |
| Children on the street going to school also saw the incident. | Children on the street going to school also saw the incident. |
| "Some bullets hit her body and some hit her leg and when police got there she was dead," interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told the AFP news agency. | "Some bullets hit her body and some hit her leg and when police got there she was dead," interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told the AFP news agency. |
| The BBC's Martin Patience in Kabul says this is not the first time that a foreigner has been killed in the Afghan capital by armed men. | The BBC's Martin Patience in Kabul says this is not the first time that a foreigner has been killed in the Afghan capital by armed men. |
| But the incident will raise further concerns about the security situation in Afghanistan, our correspondent says. | But the incident will raise further concerns about the security situation in Afghanistan, our correspondent says. |
| In the past week, there have been three assassinations in the southern city of Kandahar, all carried out by men on motorbikes. | In the past week, there have been three assassinations in the southern city of Kandahar, all carried out by men on motorbikes. |
| Operations suspended | |
| Serve Afghanistan is a UK registered charity whose overseas staff are volunteers. It focuses on education and training for people with disabilities. | Serve Afghanistan is a UK registered charity whose overseas staff are volunteers. It focuses on education and training for people with disabilities. |
| Taleban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid told AFP that they killed Ms Williams "because she was working for an organisation which was preaching Christianity in Afghanistan". | |
| In August another aid group, the International Rescue Committee, suspended operations after three of its foreign female staff - a British-Canadian, a Canadian and a Trinidadian-American - were shot with their Afghan driver close to Kabul. | |
| The Taleban claimed responsibility for that attack, saying the women were foreign spies. |