KABUL - The deaths of eight Western aid workers, whose bullet-riddled bodies were found in remote northeast Afghanistan, add to the toll of foreign civilian workers who have lost their lives to the Afghan war:

2004

June 2: Five people working for humanitarian organisation Medecins sans Frontieres, including one Belgian, one Dutch and one Norwegian citizen, are killed in an attack in Badghis province

June 10: 12 people, including 11 Chinese workers on a road reconstruction project, are killed at their base 30 kilometres south of Kunduz in Afghanistan's northeast

August 29: At least nine people, including three Americans and three Nepalese, are killed by a car bomb in Kabul

2007

April 17: Five UN employees, four of them Nepalese, are killed when their convoy is bombed in Kandahar

August 13: One Canadian, one Canadian-Briton and one American, all working for a humanitarian organisation, are killed with their driver in an ambush near Kabul

2008

January 14: Eight people, including a Norwegian, an American and a Filipino, are killed in a brazen suicide bomb and gun attack on the Serena hotel in Kabul, popular with overseas embassies and businesses

July 7: A suicide car bomb attack on the Indian embassy kills at least 41 including two senior diplomats and two Indian guards

Aug 13: Three female aid workers from Britain, the US and Canada are killed along with their Afghan driver in an ambush less than 50 kilometres from Kabul

2009

October 28: Six UN employees, including one American, die in Kabul in a Taliban attack on a guesthouse

2010

February 26: One French citizen and one Italian die in a Taliban attack that kills a total of 17 in central Kabul

July 2: At least five people, including one German, one Briton and a Filipino citizen, are killed in a suicide attack by the Taliban on the offices of an American aid organisation in Kunduz

August 6: Eight Christian aid workers -- six Americans, one Briton and one German -- are found shot dead along with two Afghans in the northeastern province of Badakhshan