| Two aid workers have been shot dead in the conflict-ridden Darfur region of western Sudan, their employer said Monday. The British Charity Save the Children said their two employees, a medical assistant and a mechanic, both Sudanese nationals, came under fire Sunday while travelling in clearly marked humanitarian vehicles on the main road between Mershing and Duma in South Darfur. "We deplore this brutal killing of humanitarian workers in Darfur", the agency's director of International Operations Ken Caldwell said in a statement. The organisation said its operations in the area have been suspended and that the African Union force in Darfur is investigating the shooting. In October, two other Save the Children staff, one British citizen and one Sudanese, were killed when they drove over a landmine in North Darfur. The African Union, whose forces monitor the ceasefire signed between the Darfur rebels and the Sudanese government in April, has said the number of violations have risen in recent weeks. |