Armed men murdered Hazara deminers in “cold blood”, says HALO Trust CEO

Of more than 100 workers of the HALO Trust, armed men have singled out Hazara deminers and shot them dead in “cold blood”, according to organization’s CEO James Cowan.

Masked gunmen stormed into the worker’s compound around 09:50 PM on Tuesday killing 10 deminers and wounding 16 others. “A group of armed men came to our camp and sought out members of the Hazara community, and then murdered them,” the BBC World Service quoted Mr. Cowan as saying. “This was not expected. The broader security situation [in Afghanistan] is understood, but this kind of cold-blooded killing was not expected.”