Suspected militants attack World Vision office, killing 5

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MANSEHRA -- At least five workers of a charity organisation, including two women, were killed and six others wounded when militants attacked a World Vision office in Mansehra District March 10.

According to BBC Urdu, more than a dozen gunmen shot at and threw hand grenades into the office of World Vision, in Dogai, Ogi Tehsil, 40km from Mansehra, NWFP. All the dead were Pakistanis.

According to news media, the attackers dragged staffers one by one to a room and shot them. The two-storey building collapsed after the assault, Jang reported. The charity has been operating in the area since the October 2005 earthquake.