7 aid workers shot and killed in Pakistan

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Fayaz Aziz / ReutersA driver who survived a shooting by unidentified gunmen in Swabi arrives at a Peshawar hospital on Tuesday after gunmen ambushed the car filled with aid workers that he was driving.By Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC NewsUpdated at 10:20 a.m. ET: PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Motorcycle-riding gunmen shot and killed seven aid workers Tuesday in an ambush near a toll plaza in the Swabi district of Pakistan's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Police said the gunmen rode their motorcycles in front of a van carrying the aid workers in order to stop it before opening fire on members of the nongovernmental organization Support With Working Solutions (SWSS). Six women and one man were shot dead at the scene, District Police Chief Abdur Rasheed Khan said, adding that the van's driver was seriously wounded.

The six women were serving as social workers and the man, a physician, was providing community health services, said Javed Akhtar, chief executive of Support With Working Solutions. They had just come from a meeting at a community center run by the organization.

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