AFP, KABULA Japanese doctor whose long career was dedicated to helping some of Afghanistan’s poorest people was among six people killed yesterday in an attack in the east of the country, officials said. The armed assault in Jalalabad, capital of Nangarhar Province, prompted appalled reactions in Afghanistan and internationally. A spokesman for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called Nakamura “one of the closest friends of Afghanistan.”Nakamura in 2003 was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award — often called Asia’s Nobel Prize. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan expressed “revulsion” at Nakamura’s killing. It was “a senseless act of violence against a man who dedicated much of his life to helping” Afghanistan’s most vulnerable, the mission said.

Source: Taipei Times December 04, 2019 16:07 UTC