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| Aid Nurse Killed in Darfur Crossfire |
| 2013-06-12 |
| [An Nahar] A Sudanese nurse working for an international aid agency in Sudan's troubled Darfur region has been rubbed out during a shootout inside a camp for displaced people, humanitarian workers said on Tuesday. It is the first known death of an aid worker in Sudan since a Sudanese driver for the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... World Food Program was killed during an attack in war-torn South Kordofan state last August. Ali al-Zatari, the United Nations chief in Sudan, said the killing occurred on Sunday in North Camp, in Central Darfur's Nertiti town. He strongly condemned the "senseless crime". "The killing of this aid worker, and the injury of several other civilians, occurred because an exchange of fire took place in a camp for people displaced by fighting in Darfur. The civilian and humanitarian nature of these camps must be respected." The U.N. said only that the victim was a Sudanese, who himself had been uprooted during Darfur's decade-long uprising which has left 1.4 million people living in camps inside the region. He was killed when a stray bullet went through the wall of his home in the camp, a U.N. source said, adding it is unclear who shot him. The incident began after an attempted ambush robbery of an army patrol. "Not long following this ambush, shooting broke out in the camp, and the shooting was quite indiscriminate," the U.N. source said. |
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