Nine people who were working on a reconstruction project in the remote north of Afghanistan have been shot dead in an attack on a guesthouse, an official said.

An Islamic militant ambush near Kabul on a US aid organisation’s vehicle killed three women, an American, a Canadian-British national and a Trinidadian, officials said.

A ROAD crash that sparked a deadly riot in the Afghan capital occurred because a military truck lost its brakes as it was coming down a hill and ploughed into a line of cars, the US military said yesterday.