Medical team ambushed returning from Nuristan eye camp
Kuran wa Munjan District, Badakhshan Province, AfghanistanInternational Assistance Mission
10 killed
Ten members of an International Assistance Mission medical team were shot dead as they drove back to Kabul from a two week eye and general health camp in the remote Parun valley. The team had reached the villages on foot with pack horses. Six Americans, one Briton, one German and two Afghans were killed. One team member was spared.
The people involved
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Tom Little
Killed
Optometrist and team leader · International Assistance Mission
American · 61 years old
Worked in Afghanistan since the late 1970s and raised three daughters in Kabul. He helped build the NOOR eye hospital and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Dan Terry
Killed
Community liaison · International Assistance Mission
American · 63 years old
Had carried out relief work in Afghanistan since 1971, following his father, who had served as IAM executive director.
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Karen Woo
Killed
General surgeon · International Assistance Mission
British · 36 years old
Left a private clinic in London to work in Afghanistan. She joined the Nuristan camp as team doctor to bring maternal health care to the valley and was due to marry that month.
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Cheryl Beckett
Killed
Nutrition and maternal health specialist · International Assistance Mission
American · 32 years old
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Brian Carderelli
Killed
International Assistance Mission
American
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Thomas Grams
Killed
International Assistance Mission
American
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Glenn Lapp
Killed
International Assistance Mission
American
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Daniela Beyer
Killed
Linguist and translator · International Assistance Mission
German
Translated between German, English and Russian, spoke Dari and was learning Pashto.
