An aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross in Afghanistan has been shot dead by unknown assailants.
The Red Cross said the Salvadoran national - who worked as a water engineer - had been killed in the Oruzgan province in central Afghanistan.
It said he was shot by armed assailants who stopped the car in which he was travelling with Afghan colleagues.
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