Aid worker shot in Somalia

Gunmen last night killed a Somalian aid worker of the UN food agency in southern Somalia, officials said.

Aid worker shot in Somalia
Sat, 18 Oct, 2008 - 12:01

Gunmen last night killed a Somalian aid worker of the UN food agency in southern Somalia, officials said.

The aid worker was shot three times as he left a mosque in the port town of Merka, about 50 miles south-west of the capital, Mogadishu, said Marcus Prior, a World Food Programme spokesman.

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