Memorial service for Japanese physician

(7 Dec 2019) A memorial was held at Kabul Airport on Saturday in honour of a Japanese aid worker killed in eastern Afghanistan earlier in the week.

Japanese physician Tetsu Nakamura was gunned down along with five Afghans on Wednesday as they travelled to the Nangarhar provincial capital of Jalalabad.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani attended the memorial where he helped carry a coffin with Nakamura's body.

The physician's wife and daughter were also at the event.

Nakamura, known as “Uncle Murad” to the villagers whose lives he helped change for the better, arrived in Afghanistan in 2008 and took the lead in building irrigation infrastructures in eastern Nangarhar province.



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