Victims apparently included Albany-area optometrist.
From the Los Angeles Times:
Taliban fighters gunned down a 10-member international medical team, including six Americans, in the wilds of northern Afghanistan, the aid group and local officials said Saturday, in an ambush that highlighted the growing dangers faced by foreign charity organizations in the country.
The aid workers, who also included two Afghans, a German and a Briton, were attacked Thursday in a remote forested area of Badakhshan province as they were returning from a mission to provide eye care to rural villagers, according to provincial police and the International Assistance Mission, the Kabul-based group that organized the trip. ...
The dead apparently included the medical team's leader, Tom Little, an optometrist from Delmar, N.Y., who had been with the organization since its early days.
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