The parents of aid worker Linda Norgrove yesterday told how they tried to talk her out of going to Afghanistan. John and Lorna Norgrove pleaded with their daughter to avoid the war-torn country but in the end they were beaten down by her 'adventurous spirit. Their worst fears were realised when the 36-year-old was kidnapped by the Taliban on September 26. She died on October 8 during a U.S-led rescue attempt and it has since emerged a U.S. grenade may have killed her. A military inquiry into her death is under way, but the Norgroves said they didnt want to enter into a 'blame game. They said their daughter was determined to go to Afghanistan four years ago when she worked for the United Nations. 'When she first went, we tried to dissuade her, said Mr Norgrove. 'I said to her that our worst nightmare was that she might be kidnapped. But we had to accept shed been adventurous, shed done risky things before. Her death came a fortnight after her parents, from the Western Isles, learned of her kidnapping in Kunar province. Speaking publicly for the first time since her death, Mr Norgrove said: 'It was a beautiful Sunday. 'We had gone for a long walk, climbed one of the mountains close by and we came back to be met by the police. They told us Linda had been kidnapped and from then on it was an absolute emotional roller-coaster. 'Its very difficult to explain to anybody who has not been through it, but it felt like sometimes when you are busy and talking to people the pain almost seemed to go away. 'Then it would just come in floods of emotion. 'I got through that period to a certain extent by imagining the elation of meeting up with Linda when she returned home in Stornoway Airport. 'So, it came as an absolute nightmare to us two weeks later to have a visit from the police at three oclock in the morning to say she had been killed in a rescue attempt. Mrs Norgrove, 62, said her daughter had 'grown to love the Afghan people. 'I knew thats where her heart was and she wanted to do humanitarian work there, she said. 'We dont want to enter the blame game. Linda is dead and theres nothing we can do to change that. Mr Norgrove, 60, described his daughters captors as 'extremely dangerous and militant criminals. He added: 'The rescue attempt, it would appear to us, was so close to being a total success and at the end there was what appears to have been a human error. But we do think that it is very creditable of the Americans to own up that there has been a mistake when they could so easily have covered the whole thing up. Miss Norgrove was working for the firm Development Alternatives Inc. Based in Jalalabad, she supervised reconstruction programmes funded by the U.S. government. Her parents are determined that her work should continue. After her funeral earlier this week they announced they had set up a foundation in her name and pledged 63,000. The funds raised will be used in Afghanistan in projects administered by Development Alternatives. (The Dailymail)