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Taliban kill 3 women aid workers, driver; claim theyre helping EinvadersI

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Taliban kill 3 women aid workers, driver; claim theyre helping EinvadersI

The gate of the main office of the International Rescue Committee in Kabul, Afghanistan is seen on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2008. A militant ambush south of Kabul targeted New York-based IRC's vehicle Tuesday, killing an American, a Canadian and an Irish national, Afghan officials said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESSs/Rahmat Gul

NEW YORK - A humanitarian group has released the name of the second of two Canadian aid workers killed in Afghanistan today.

Thirty-year-old Shirley Case, of Williams Lake, B.C., joined the International Rescue Committee on June 8th in Afghanistan.

She managed education programs designed to meet the needs of children with disabilities.

The other woman has been identifed as 40-year-old Jacqueline Kirk of Outremont, Quebec.

Kirk, a British-Canadian citizen, was an authority on education for women and girls, especially in conflict zones, and was in Afghanistan on a short consultancy visit for the I-R-C.

The two Canadians, a 32-year-old Trinidadian-American, and their 25-year-old Afghan driver were killed in an attack in Logar province, just south of Kabul. Taliban fighters fired dozens of bullets into clearly marked aid vehicles in Logar province, just south of Kabul.

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