5 Pakistani workers killed in Afghanistan

Five Pakistani construction workers have been shot dead in an ambush in southern Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.
Another Pakistani who was wounded in the ambush is in hospital, the senior doctor at the Mirwais hospital in Kandahar city told AFP news agency.
The workers were ambushed on their way to work, according to the governor of Kandahar's Panjwayi district, Shah Baran.
"The workers were on their way to Panjwayi district, where they work on a road construction project, when they were ambushed and these workers were killed," Baran said.
Abdul Satar, acting head of Mirwais hospital, said five bodies were brought in.
"Gunmen ambushed them... and now five bodies and one injured Pakistani worker have been brought to our hospital," he said.
The Pakistanis were believed to have been working for a Japanese road construction firm, the name of which could not be immediately confirmed.