Doctors treating toddler shot by Taliban fear rise in Afghan violence

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Abuzar, the son of Afghan journalist Sardar Ahmed of AFP who was killed with his wife and two children during an attack by gunmen at Serena Hotel, is comforted by his grandmother at the Emergency hospital in KabulBy Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) – That Afghan toddler Abuzar survived a bullet fragment to the head during a Taliban attack in Kabul last week is astonishing. The militant Islamist Taliban movement has declared war on the April 5 presidential election, and it may also be emboldened by the withdrawal of many foreign troops stationed in Afghanistan by the end of the year. "We are here to be surgeons of war," said Luca Radaelli, a doctor at the surgical center in Kabul run by an Italian non-governmental group called Emergency, where admissions have soared 36 percent so far this year. "Our plan is to expand and build on the facilities we have present in Afghanistan," he added.

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