Kabul, Afghanistan ? The mother and father of a slain French refugee worker made a devastating journey Wednesday from Paris to the Afghan capital to bid farewell to their daughter, shot in broad daylight over the weekend by suspected Taliban rebels.

With international U.N. refugee agency staffers already evacuating the volatile south and east of the country in the wake of the slaying, news of another attack — this one a carjacking against a U.N.-affiliated de-mining agency — shook the aid community.

The parents, brother and sister of Bettina Goislard flew in from Paris to Kabul’s ramshackle international airport, greeted on a brisk wintery day by members of the Afghan government, the French embassy and Goislard’s grieving colleagues from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

They spent the day with UNHCR staff and later issued a heart-wrenching tribute to their daughter and other humanitarian workers.

“We, the family, are devastated by the pain. We have lost our child, our sister, and we know how many people are suffering also from her absence,” they said.

“We would like to pay homage to all those who put their lives at risk everyday to serve the noble cause they believe in,” the family continued. “The pain we are going through today reminds us that, if we give in to indifference, human values will be lost.”

Maki Shinohara, a spokeswoman in Kabul for UNHCR, said the family planned to visit their daughter’s body, which is being kept at a base belonging to international peacekeepers in the capital.

“They want to see Bettina for one last time,” Shinohara said.

A funeral for Goislard was planned for today at a cemetery in Kabul, Shinohara said. A larger memorial was planned for Sunday, and Shinohara said UNHCR’s assistant high commissioner, Kamel Morjane, would travel from the agency’s Geneva headquarters to attend.

Goislard, 29, had worked in Afghanistan for more than a year, and told colleagues that if anything were to happen to her she wished to be buried in Afghanistan.

Relatives of Bettina Goislard, a French United Nations refugee worker, arrive at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Goislard, 29, was shot by suspected Taliban as she traveled through a bazaar in central Afghanistan last weekend.