with village elders. After serving with MSF Switzerland's mission in Baharak, a town in northern Afghanistan, he returned in 2003 and helped build MSF in Norway while awaiting his next assignment. It came nearly a year later. It was Afghanistan again, this time the Badghis region in the North-west. The Dutch branch of MSF needed him to lead a local tuberculosis programme, carry out general medical duties and to train local medical staff in basic primary health clinics. By June 2004 the MSF team in Badghis had built up the polyclinic to deal with more than 1000 consultations a month. The TB programme was treating 45 patients and expanding and a mother and baby clinic had opened. The mission having come to an end, Dr Tynæs and his team appeared happy at having achieved their goal. The next day, on a road near the polyclinic in Khairkhana, the land cruiser in which they were travelling was ambushed with gunfire and grenades killing Dr Tynæs and four other MSF staff. References External links Drept på oppdragets aller siste dag - Dagbladet Utenriks ret 2014.11.19 Sørger over venn og læremester ROY HILMAR SVENDSEN 04.jun. 2004 Bergens Tidende ret 2014.11.19 HEALTH HERO: MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES by Josh from Millbrook - Myhero retrieved 2014.11.19 Wir Gedenken der Ermordung unserer fünf Kollegen 02.06.2005 Geoff Prescott - Medecins sans frontieres ret 2014.11.19 Plaque in memory of Besmillah, Fazil Ahmad, Pim Kwint, Egil Tynaes, Helene de Bier in the British Cemetery, Kabul, Afghanistan ret 2014.11.19 1941 births 2004 deaths People from Lillehammer Norwegian general practitioners Anthroposophic medicine practitioners Norwegian people murdered abroad Norwegian emergency physicians