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UN REFUGEE AGENCY STAFF MEMBER SHOT DEAD IN CHAD: 07/12/2007 (MaximsNews Network)
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UNITED NATIONS - / MaximsNews Network /
- 07 December 2007 --A
staff member of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was
shot dead during a shooting incident in Chad yesterday, prompting the agency and
the Government to examine the circumstances surrounding the killing.
Mahmat
Mahamadou, a driver based at the UNHCR Field Office in Danamadji in the south of
Chad, where UNHCR cares for over 43,000 refugees from the Central African
Republic, was returning alone in a vehicle after delivering a staff member to a
regular meeting point for transfer of staff members when he was attacked,
according to a spokesman for the agency.
“We
are shocked and saddened” by the killing, said William Spindler.
“The
circumstances surrounding the shooting are still not clear and we are working
with the Chadian authorities to find out exactly what happened,” he told the
press in Geneva, where UNHCR is headquartered.
This is
the first fatality UNHCR has suffered in its operations in Chad.
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