Tag: Tetsu Nakamura

Japanese doctor who won PHL Ramon Magsaysay Awards in 2003 among six killed in Afghanistan attack

  A Japanese doctor who dedicated almost 40 years of his life helping poor people in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, and who won the Philippines’ Ramon Magsaysay Awards in 2003, was among six people killed Wednesday in an attack in the east of the country, officials said. The armed assault in Jalalabad city, the capital of Nangarhar province, was the second deadly incident involving aid workers in recent days and prompted appalled reaction in Afghanistan and […]