5 Afghan laborers killed in ambush
Militants ambushed and fatally shot five Afghan laborers and wounded another as they brought construction wood to a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan, police said Tuesday. The attack on the truck carrying the laborers happened Monday in Kunar province, said Abdul Jalal Jalal, the provincial police chief. A seventh man, the driver, managed to escape unhurt. Jalal suspected that Taliban militants were responsible for the killings in the Karangal area and that the laborers had been targeted because they were working at an American base. Full Story