Aid worker hurt by 'boy suicide bomber'

New Zealand Herald Wednesday 28th March, 2012

Australia is investigating claims that one of its aid workers in southern Afghanistan was seriously injured by a 12-year-old suicide bomber targeting Westerners in revenge for the massacre of 17 villagers by an American soldier. David Savage, 49, a former Federal Police agent whose experiences in East Timor inspired a television mini-series, was yesterday reported in a serious but stable condition at a German hospital. He is Australia's first civilian casualty in a war that has killed 32 Diggers and injured 218 others. The bomb that injured Savage also killed three United States soldiers and wounded an Afghan National Army soldier.

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