2 Sentenced to Die for Slaying of U.N. Worker

A court in Kabul convicted two Afghans in the killing of a French U.N. staff member last year and sentenced them to death, officials said.

The murder of Bettina Goislard, 29, the first foreign United Nations worker to be killed in the country since the fall of the Taliban, led the U.N. to evacuate its staff from southern and eastern Afghanistan.

Zia Ahmad and Abdul Nabi were sentenced to death for the Nov. 16 fatal shooting. Goislard was sitting in a U.N. vehicle at the time in the eastern city of Ghazni, south of the capital, Kabul.

Officials in Ghazni said the men, whose ages weren’t available, had denied the crime.