Eight aid workers wounded in Battagram
Battagram, Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan National NGO
8 wounded
8 NGO national staff injured, two critically, when an explosive device went off outside the office and residential compound of a national NGO running health and education projects. Staff were asleep inside. We have suspended our operations. Our staff has been evacuated," Michael McGrath, country director of Save the Children US in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) told IRIN, noting that all 95 staff members - international and national - had been moved out of Battagram and the nearby town of Bana. Means of attack recorded as other explosives. Source: Aid Worker Security Database, incident 580.
People involved
No names have been released for this case.