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Terrorists murdered 11 Chinese
http://www.sina.com.cn 2004/06/11 10:34  Shanghai Daily

  Terrorists murdered 11 Chinese road workers at a construction camp in northern Afghanistan early yesterday.

  Four other Chinese and an Afghan were wounded.

  Many of the 100 workers at the camp came from eastern China's Shandong Province and arrived in Afghanistan only on Tuesday.

  They were camped in a patch of desert near Jalaw Gir in Kunduz Province, 200 kilometers north of the capital, Kabul.

  Mutaleb beg, the Kunduz police chief, said six to eight assailants killed an Afghan guard at the unfenced camp about 1am and then shot the Chinese men as they slept in two tents.

  "They died in their beds, most of them with stomach and head wounds," Beg said after visiting the scene. It was the deadliest attack on foreign civilians since the fall of the Taliban.

  Beg said no one was arrested, but pointed a finger at supporters of renegade Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who has teamed with the Taliban and vowed to oust the government of US-backed President Hamid Karzai.

  The chinese were working for China Railway Shisiju Group Corporation on a 230-kilometer road project.

  A company engineer surnamed Che said from the company headquarters in Jinan, capital of Shandong Province, yesterday that the company has set up an emergency task force ready to leave for Afghanistan as early as possible.

  It has also set up a domestic team to help the workers' families in China.

  The deaths are the first major casualties China has encountered in Afghanistan in the past two years.

  President hu Jintao, in Krakow on a state visit to Poland, strongly condemned the "inhumane and brutal attack."

  Hu instructed the Chinese Foreign Ministry and the Chinese Embassy in Afghanistan to try their utmost to ensure the best treatment for the wounded and to properly handle the aftermath of the incident.

  He urged the Afghan government and the United Nations mission in the country to investigate the incident and bring the terrorists to justice and to ensure the safety and security of other Chinese citizens in Afghanistan.

  Hu conveyed through the Chinese Embassy in Afghanistan his comfort to the injured and condolences to families.

  The chinese Embassy in Afghanistan said all the injured workers have been taken to a hospital in Kunduz.

  In beijing, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said Chinese companies, which are also working on irrigation projects, would not be forced out of Afghanistan but would need better protection.

  "China will not give in to any terrorism," he said.

  (Xinhua/AP)




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