A World Food Program (WFP) employee and his driver abducted in Somalia last week have been killed, their relatives said on Monday after they found their bodies.
Gunmen kidnapped the two late Friday in the town of Dinsor, around 350 kilometers west of Mogadishu, while a third who escaped said the gunmen had opened fire. "We are now about to bury them. We found the bodies and they are brutally mutilated," said Geni Abdullahi, a sister to the driver, adding that the bodies had been found some distance from the town.
The wife of the WFP worker, who gave her name only as Isho, said the bodies had been "riddled with bullets. We don't know why they killed them."
In a statement, the agency's director Josette Sheeran said she was "shocked by this senseless and barbaric attack on one of our staff." WFP said the incident marked the first violent death of an employee in the war-riven country since 1993. Five of the organization's drivers have been killed in earlier incidents this year. |