10 Medical Personnel killed in Afghanistan

Sometime before August 6, 2010, Taliban fighters ambushed and killed a 10-member medical team, including six Americans, as they were returning from a trip to a remote northern area to provide eye care to rural villagers, their aid organization and local officials said Saturday.

The 10 charity workers, who also included two Afghans, a German and a Briton, were found slain in a remote forested area of Badakhshan province, according to provincial police and the International Assistance Mission, the Kabul-based group that organized the trip.

The Taliban movement claimed responsibility for the deaths, claiming those killed were spies and preachers of Christianity. The details provided in statements by spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid suggested that the killers were in fact insurgents and not bandits, who also roam freely in the area.


The dead are:


Tom Little, age 62, Delmar, New York
Dan Terry, age 64, U.S.A.
Brian Carderelli, age 25, Harrisonburg, Virginia
Cheryl Beckett, age 32, Knoxville, Tennessee
Dr. Tom Grams, age 51, Durango, Colorado
Glen Lapp, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Dr. Karen Woo, age 36, England
Daniela Beyer, age 35, Chemnitz, German
Mahram Ali, Afghanistan
Jawed, Afghanistan


Let us pray to God the Father, Jesus, all of the saints and all of the angels that these medical workers are in heaven. Let us pray that they are at peace and are with God. Amen