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Fri, May 4th, 2012 1:31 pm BDST
Dhaka, May 4 (bdnews24.com) A BRAC official was killed early Thursday in the western Afghan province of Ghor, Pajhwok news agency reported quoting the local police chief.
Mohammad Mohiuddin, area manager for the BRAC's Community-Based Livelihood Improvement Project, was killed when the Taliban stormed the BRAC office in Chaghcharan, the Ghor capital, just before dawn.
"It is a grave loss for me as well as the organisation," BRAC Afghanistan chief Khondoker Ariful Islam told bdnews24.com on Friday.
Islam said Mohiuddin had headed the project for BRAC in Ghor for the last two years and a half. "He was a close associate and was doing really good work," said the grieving BRAC country representative
He said notifying the family would be coordinated from Dhaka.
In Dhaka, BRAC media manager Zia Hashan told bdnews24.com that the Mohiuddin family, from Mymensingh, had been informed on Thursday morning.
Islam said he hoped that the body would be flown to Dhaka by Saturday. "We only managed to fly Mohiuddin's remains from Ghor to Kabul today."
BRAC chartered a UN flight to bring Mohiuddin's body to Kabul. The flight from Ghor had arrived a little before bdnews24.com contacted Islam, he said.
The Afghan police reportedly said that a wounded insurgent who had been arrested admitted the group's intention was to kidnap the Bangladeshis for swapping their associates.
The militants sought to swap the foreigners for their detained fighters, according to one escapee, Samiul Haq.
"The office head was killed on the spot, but I succeeded in fleeing soon after the assailants entered the building," Pajhwok quoted Haq as saying.
Samiul told the news agency that an Afghan BRAC employee, who was sharing the room with the office head, escaped unhurt.
According to Islam, there had been no warnings about any security threat from Ghor. "Nor did Mohiuddin give us any such indication."
The BRAC head in Afghanistan said the world's largest NGO had gained acceptability. "This is only the second such instance in over 10 years of our working here."
Considering that BRAC has 150 Bangladeshis working in its 3,000- strong workforce in the war-torn country, the frequency is admittedly low, Islam pointed out.
Set up as the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee in 1972, BRAC has operations from Afghanistan to South Sudan to Haiti, working in as diverse areas as livelihoods, education, microfinance.
bdnews24.com/trb/ta/1400h.
Taliban kill Brac manager | Bangladesh | bdnews24.com
Fri, May 4th, 2012 1:31 pm BDST
Dhaka, May 4 (bdnews24.com) A BRAC official was killed early Thursday in the western Afghan province of Ghor, Pajhwok news agency reported quoting the local police chief.
Mohammad Mohiuddin, area manager for the BRAC's Community-Based Livelihood Improvement Project, was killed when the Taliban stormed the BRAC office in Chaghcharan, the Ghor capital, just before dawn.
"It is a grave loss for me as well as the organisation," BRAC Afghanistan chief Khondoker Ariful Islam told bdnews24.com on Friday.
Islam said Mohiuddin had headed the project for BRAC in Ghor for the last two years and a half. "He was a close associate and was doing really good work," said the grieving BRAC country representative
He said notifying the family would be coordinated from Dhaka.
In Dhaka, BRAC media manager Zia Hashan told bdnews24.com that the Mohiuddin family, from Mymensingh, had been informed on Thursday morning.
Islam said he hoped that the body would be flown to Dhaka by Saturday. "We only managed to fly Mohiuddin's remains from Ghor to Kabul today."
BRAC chartered a UN flight to bring Mohiuddin's body to Kabul. The flight from Ghor had arrived a little before bdnews24.com contacted Islam, he said.
The Afghan police reportedly said that a wounded insurgent who had been arrested admitted the group's intention was to kidnap the Bangladeshis for swapping their associates.
The militants sought to swap the foreigners for their detained fighters, according to one escapee, Samiul Haq.
"The office head was killed on the spot, but I succeeded in fleeing soon after the assailants entered the building," Pajhwok quoted Haq as saying.
Samiul told the news agency that an Afghan BRAC employee, who was sharing the room with the office head, escaped unhurt.
According to Islam, there had been no warnings about any security threat from Ghor. "Nor did Mohiuddin give us any such indication."
The BRAC head in Afghanistan said the world's largest NGO had gained acceptability. "This is only the second such instance in over 10 years of our working here."
Considering that BRAC has 150 Bangladeshis working in its 3,000- strong workforce in the war-torn country, the frequency is admittedly low, Islam pointed out.
Set up as the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee in 1972, BRAC has operations from Afghanistan to South Sudan to Haiti, working in as diverse areas as livelihoods, education, microfinance.
bdnews24.com/trb/ta/1400h.
Taliban kill Brac manager | Bangladesh | bdnews24.com
