UN aid worker shot and wounded

A United Nations aid worker was shot and wounded in eastern Chad after being pulled from her car in a volatile region near the Sudanese border, the agency said today.

Sylvaen Ndakas of the UN High Commission for Refugees said the French woman, who was attacked in Abeche on Friday night, was taken to the capital of N’Djamena and hospitalised. Details of her condition were not released.