UN counts 38 deaths among employees in Afghanistan since 2021

The UN's humanitarian affairs coordinator deployed to Afghanistan has disclosed that 38 of his workers have been killed within the last two years.

As reported by Tolonews, Coordinator Daniel Endres told the agency that most of them were working as polio vaccinators and deminers in the country.

While he did not specify the circumstances under which the UN-affiliated workers have died, he did state that UN employees have provided humanitarian aid to more than 26 million people in 401 districts of Afghanistan.

The publication noted, that a spokesperson for the Tabilan government rejected the comments of the coordinator of humanitarian aid and said that the aid workers in Afghanistan have the support of the Islamic Emirate.

“The Western institutions are all coordinated in presenting Afghanistan as an unsafe region and have started and are continuing their propaganda. This is not true; the Afghans are witnessing, and we are also witnessing that the aid workers were not harmed”, said Zabiullah Mujahid.

It further recalls an incident from February 2022, in which eight health workers, including four women, had been shot and killed in separate attacks by unidentified gunmen in the northern provinces of Kunduz and Takhar.