ST. PETERSBURG. May 30 (Interfax-AVN) - An employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has died and another has been injured as a result of a terrorist attack committed near the Red Cross office in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, ICRC employee Juan Luis Coderque Galligo said in St. Petersburg on Thursday.
"This is very sad news that one Afghan branch employee died and another one was injured yesterday as a result of a terrorist attack near the Red Cross office in Jalalabad," Galligo said at the 10th International Conference Martens Readings on the International Humanitarian Law being held at St. Petersburg State University.
"The International Red Cross will continue its humanitarian work in Afghanistan regardless of the terrorist attack carried out in Jalalabad," Galligo said.
Events dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the ICRC humanitarian work are being held in St. Petersburg.
The ICRC was founded in 1863. The Geneva Convention for the Relief of the Wounded and Sick in Armies, the first humanitarian law agreement, was passed a year later at the diplomatic conference in Geneva.