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Scores of Afghans gathered outside an Italian charity's hospital in Helmand to protest after authorities arrested three Italian workers on suspicion of being part of a plot to assassinate a provincial governor in southern Afghanistan.The detentions of the Italian nationals 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 alleged by saying that the devices had been brought to the clinic with the help of the Italian staff.According to their plan, an Emergency foreign staff member received $500,000 as an advance for killing me, he said.Afghans protest against Italian charity, Emergency, after workers accused of involvement in the assassination plot of a local official.Six Afghan nationals have also been accused. The protesters demanded for all Italian troops to leave Afghanistan.
