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UK aid worker may have been killed by rescuers grenade
British aid worker Linda Norgrove may have been accidentally killed by US forces during a rescue mission in Afghanistan, however international forces originally said she died on Friday when one of her captors detonated a suicide vest.
It had been thought that she was killed by her abductors just as US forces reached the compound in which she was being held.
But [UK prime minister] Mr Cameron said Gen David Petraeus, the top allied commander in Afghanistan, had telephoned him on Monday morning to say she could have died as a result of a grenade detonated by the taskforce during the assault.
It is usual practice for US Special Forces to take fragmentation grenades on hostage rescue operations, the source added
The BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul said tribal elders negotiating her release they had asked Nato not to intervene, to ensure they had more time to secure a release.
An officer working for the National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan's spy agency, said a delegation of mullahs, tribal elders and village chiefs was despatched to the area soon after her capture to negotiate with the militants.
But the coalition forces bombed several nearby locations, forcing the delegation to halt their mission, our correspondent said
British aid worker Linda Norgrove may have been accidentally killed by US forces during a rescue mission in Afghanistan, however international forces originally said she died on Friday when one of her captors detonated a suicide vest.
It had been thought that she was killed by her abductors just as US forces reached the compound in which she was being held.
But [UK prime minister] Mr Cameron said Gen David Petraeus, the top allied commander in Afghanistan, had telephoned him on Monday morning to say she could have died as a result of a grenade detonated by the taskforce during the assault.
It is usual practice for US Special Forces to take fragmentation grenades on hostage rescue operations, the source added
The BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul said tribal elders negotiating her release they had asked Nato not to intervene, to ensure they had more time to secure a release.
An officer working for the National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan's spy agency, said a delegation of mullahs, tribal elders and village chiefs was despatched to the area soon after her capture to negotiate with the militants.
But the coalition forces bombed several nearby locations, forcing the delegation to halt their mission, our correspondent said
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