MAZAR-I-SHARIF: A French aid worker with the Red Cross in Afghanistan was stabbed in the throat by a prisoner during a visit to a jail to distribute winter clothes, police said yesterday, adding the injury was not serious.
The ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) staff member was visiting Maimana jail in the remote northern province of Faryab on Tuesday when he was attacked.
A doctor at Maimana city hospital said that he was treated for a two-centimetre cut to his throat before being released.
AFP
