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Sun, 27 Jul, 2014 12:08:45 AM Death of aid workers commemorated FTimes-STT Report, July 27  An Afghan policeman inspects the taxi in which two foreign women were gunned down at the police headquarters in Herat on Saturday.Photo – AFP / Lehtikuva. Four people were arrested so far in Afghanistan on charge of killing two Finnish aid workers, the Finnish Ambassador to Kabul, Ari Mäki told news agency STT on Saturday.
Two Finnish female aid workers were killed in the western Afghan town of Herat by unknown gunmen on July 24.
The victims worked for Christian aid organisation, International Assistance Mission (IAM).
The Finnish envoy informed that among the arrested was the driver of the taxi in which the aid workers were travelling at the time of shooting while the identities of the rest three could not be known.
The Afghan authority also told the Finnish ambassador that the incident was not related to robbery and all the detainees were local people.
The ambassador also provided the National Bureau of Investigation in Finland with necessary information regarding the murders.
Bags lie on the bloodied seat of the taxi in which two foreign women were gunned down by men on a motorcycle, in Herat on July 24, 2014. Photo – AFP / Lehtikuva. Mäki said that the Afghan Interior Minister, Mohammed Umer Daudzai has assured to take all possible measures to bring the criminals under the law.
“Daudzai has assured that justice will be done,” Mäki said.
Meanwhile, commemorating programmes are being held at different Churches in the country remembering the slain aid workers.
The victims were remembered at Jyväskylä and Korpilahti churches on Saturday where the people observed one minutes silence to commemorate the victims.
Special prayer will be offered in Seinäjoki churches on Sunday.
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