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Rescuers may have killed UK Afghan aid worker-Cameron

by Reuters
Monday, 11 October 2010 11:06 GMT

LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A British hostage who died in Afghanistan on Friday during a rescue mission may have been accidentally killed by coalition forces trying to save her, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday.

"That evidence, and subsequent interviews with the personnel involved suggests that Linda could have died as a result of a grenade detonated by the task force during the assault," Cameron said in a news conference.

He said he took full responsibility for authorising the operation to rescue Linda Norgrove, who worked for U.S. aid group. She had been kidnapped on Sept. 26.

(Reporting by Matt Falloon, Editing by Sumeet Desai)

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