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Red Cross Worker Slain In Afghanistan: 'All She Wanted To Do Was Help'

Lorena Perez was a physiotherapist. On Monday, a patient in a wheelchair shot and killed her. The motive is not yet known.
The International Committee of the Red Cross flew its flag at half-mast outside its orthopedic center in Kabul on February 9, after gunmen killed six Afghan employees delivering relief supplies in the snowbound north. Another shooting this week took the life of a physical therapist on the ICRC staff. / SHAH MARAI / Getty Images

She was working with children who had cerebral palsy in Afghanistan. At around 10:15 Monday morning, she stepped outside of the ward to approach two patients in the orthopedic center. One of them, a man in a wheelchair, took out a gun and fatally wounded Lorena Enebral Perez. He had been a patient at the orthopedic center in Mazar-i-Sharif for 19 years, having first visited the center at age 2 to be treated for polio. She was a Spanish physiotherapist on her first mission with the International Committee of.

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