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UN:
KILLING OF AFGHAN AID WORKER SPARKS OUTRAGE FROM UN AGENCY CHIEF:
06/12/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 06 December 2007 --
The head of the United Nations World Food
Programme (WFP) has spoken out against the killing of a humanitarian worker in
southern Afghanistan, gunned down while delivering vital food aid in one of the
most dangerous parts of the violence-ridden nation.
“We
strongly deplore this attack, as we do all acts of aggression against
humanitarian workers assisting people in desperate need,” WFP Executive
Director Josette Sheeran said today, in response to the killing of one of the
agency’s truck drivers, Ezatollah. “No loss of life can be tolerated.”
Mr.
Ezatollah was driving a truck carrying 14 tons of high energy biscuits for WFP
in the early hours of 2 December when he was ambushed by armed men on the road
from Kandahar to Helmand in southern Afghanistan – the site of two other
attacks on WFP trucks in October and November.
He was
shot dead and his assistant was abducted and remains missing, as does the truck
and its cargo. Police investigations are continuing into the incident.
WFP
notes that attacks on its trucks and convoys are a common hazard in various
parts of the world. In October, three contract truck drivers were shot dead
while working for the agency in the strife-torn Darfur region of Sudan.
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