MOGADISHU, Somalia -Gunmen fatally shot a U.N. World Food program worker Thursday in Somalia during a food distribution — the second staff member killed this week, the agency and witnesses said.Several gunmen ordered the Somali worker from his car and shot him in the head and chest, said Aden Mohamud Gelle, a witness who has a shop nearby.
"He fell on the ground writhing in pain," he said, adding that the bandits loaded his body into a car and drove off.Peter Smerdon, a Nairobi, Kenya-based spokesman for the U.N. World Food Program, said the body was later dumped."We condemn this shocking killings of two WFP staffers in three days," Smerdon said.On Tuesday, three gunmen shot Ibrahim Hussein Duale, a 44-year-old Somali who was a school feeding monitor in the Gedo region of central Somalia.
The U.N. keeps its international Somalia staff members in Kenya to shield them from the risk of attacks and kidnappings. In 2008, at least 13 aid workers were killed in Somalia, which has not had an effective government since 1991 MORE,..http://news.aol.com/article/somali-aid-worker-killed-outside/181357
"He fell on the ground writhing in pain," he said, adding that the bandits loaded his body into a car and drove off.Peter Smerdon, a Nairobi, Kenya-based spokesman for the U.N. World Food Program, said the body was later dumped."We condemn this shocking killings of two WFP staffers in three days," Smerdon said.On Tuesday, three gunmen shot Ibrahim Hussein Duale, a 44-year-old Somali who was a school feeding monitor in the Gedo region of central Somalia.
The U.N. keeps its international Somalia staff members in Kenya to shield them from the risk of attacks and kidnappings. In 2008, at least 13 aid workers were killed in Somalia, which has not had an effective government since 1991 MORE,..http://news.aol.com/article/somali-aid-worker-killed-outside/181357
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