Gunmen in Afghanistan killed 11 Chinese road workers after bursting into their compound early on Thursday, in one of the worst attacks on foreigners in Afghanistan since the Taliban’s overthrow in 2001.The raid occurred 35 km south of Kunduz,. The provincial governor blamed the raid on militants bent on destabilising the government of President Hamid Karzai by attacking foreign and Afghan troops as well as aid and reconstruction workers ahead of landmark elections in September.The Taliban denied responsibility. ‘‘We were not behind this, we have not done this,’’ said rebel spokesman Hamid Agha.China condemned the killings as a ‘‘brutal terrorist act’’ but said it had no plan to pull its workers out from Afghanistan. —(Reuters)
