Sunday, October 19, 2008
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MOGADISHU, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Muqtar Mohamed Hassan, head of water and sanitation program of the United Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF) in the southern Somali town of Hudur, was shot dead by unknown gunmen, witnesses said Sunday.
Hassan is the second local official of a UN agency killed in southern Somalia this week.
"We heard gun shots near where we were sitting. Then we found Muqtar dead. The gunmen escaped," a witness who asked for anonymity told Xinhua by phone.
Hudur, the provincial capital of Bakool region, 430 km southwest of Somali capital Mogadishu, is under the control of al-Shabaab Islamist movement which late last month banned the operation of two international aid agencies and issued a warning to others.
Source: Xinhua, Oct. 19, 2008