Six Killed Including Two U.N. Staff In Central Afghanistan

KABUL, July 28 (AFP) - Six Afghans including two local UN staff registering voters for upcoming elections were killed in a bomb blast inside a mosque in central Afghanistan Wednesday, officials said.
The attack came as Nobel prize-winning aid agency Medecins Sans Frontiers announced its withdrawal from Afghanistan, almost two months after five of its workers were killed, because of deteriorating security in the run-up to the October polls.
The two UN staff were registering voters in the mosque in Ghazni province when the bomb exploded, the US-led coalition said in a statement.
At least two other UN staff were injured in the explosion and were airlifted to hospital at the Bagram airbase outside Kabul, the statement said. The UN staff were Afghan nationals, UN spokesman David Singh said.
The United Nations Assistance Mission Afghanistan (UNAMA) "personnel were performing voter registration inside the mosque when the improvised explosive device exploded," the coalition statement said.
The other four dead were local residents.