Four aid workers killed and five wounded in Kandahar (District 2

An attack on a UN facility in Kandahar caused numerous casualites, including 4 national NGO staff (1 killed and 3 wounded) and 5 UN guards (3 killed and 2 wounded). The attack began with a vehicle-borne suicide bomb, detonated outside a UN guesthouse, close to the main gate of a local NGO compound, followed by an armed raid and fire fight that lasted for 7 hours and ended in the deaths of all the attackers. Means of attack recorded as complex attack. Context raid. Actor Not applicable. Source: Aid Worker Security Database, incident 1176.