Myanmar UN worker among 3 killed in Afghan bombing
A Myanmar engineer working for the United Nations was among three people killed in a suspected suicide bombing at an Internet cafe in Kabul, the interior ministry and UN said yesterday.
The explosion Saturday evening destroyed the cafe and injured six other people.
The dead engineer was identified by his passport and a UN card found in his pocket, interior ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal told AFP, correcting an earlier statement that the dead man was from the Philippines.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. "He was from Burma not from the Philippines. He was identified from his passport and UN card," Mashal said.
United Nations spokeswoman Ariane Quentier confirmed the man was a UN employee.
"We confirm that one of our employees, a man, a Burmese engineer working for UNOPS, was killed by the explosion on Saturday," Ariane Quentier told AFP.
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