Three Italian medical workers are among nine men arrested in Afghanistan in connection with an alleged plot to kill a provincial governor, officials say.
The detentions came after suicide bomb vests and weapons were discovered at a hospital run by a Milan-based charity in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand.
Helmand Governor Gulab Mangal said the devices had been brought to the clinic “with the help of the foreign staff”.
But the charity, Emergency, said it was confident its employees were innocent.
