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Bodies of 4 American Aid Workers Headed Home from Afghanistan

   VOA News 11 August 2010
   Undated photo provided by Beckett family shows Cheryl Beckett, 32, one
   of 10 members of a medical team gunned down in Afghanistan. Beckett is
   the daughter of a Knoxville pastor.

Photo: AP/ Beckett family

   Undated photo provided by Beckett family shows Cheryl Beckett, 32, one
   of 10 members of a medical team gunned down in Afghanistan. Beckett is
   the  daughter  of  a Knoxville pastor. She had been in Afghanistan for
   six  years  and  specialized in nutritional gardening and mother-child
   health.

   The bodies of four American aid workers killed in northern Afghanistan
   are headed to the United States.
   Ten members of an International Assistance Mission medical team, eight
   foreigners  and  two  Afghans,  were  shot  and  killed  in Badakhshan
   province last week. Â
   A  spokeswoman  for  the  U.S. embassy in Afghanistan, Caitlin Hayden,
   said  Wednesday  that  the  remains of four of the slain U.S. citizens
   have  begun  the  journey  home to their families.  The bodies of two
   other  Americans  will  be  buried  in Afghanistan, in accordance with
   their families' wishes.
   The  U.S.  Federal  Bureau  of  Investigation  (FBI)  is  probing  the
   killings, which have been condemned by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
   Clinton.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and AFP.

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