From: wolda002@umn.edu
Date: Sun Jul 06 2008 - 16:20:46 EDT
UN official killed in Somalia
By MOHAMED SHEIKH NOR, Associated Press Writer 44 minutes ago
Gunmen opened fire on people leaving a mosque in Somalia's capital on
Sunday night, killing one of the country's senior U.N. officials and
wounding his son and another man, a witness and a family member said.
Attacks on officials, including those working for the U.N. or aid agencies,
are common in Somalia, where Islamic insurgents have vowed to fight an
Iraq-style insurgency against the country's weak and corrupt U.N.-supported
government.
Osman Ali Ahmed, the head of the U.N. Development Program for Somalia, was
covered in blood and unconscious as he was rushed to a hospital after
Sunday's shooting, said Hassan Ali, a witness and a neighbor of Ahmed's.
Ali said in an interview that it was not clear how badly Ahmed's son and
the other man were hurt.
Ahmed's wife, Masteho Abubakr Yusus, later told The Associated Press that
her husband died at the African Union hospital after being shot in the
head.
The shooting occurred a day after an explosion killed a Somali official,
his wife and four others in Mogadishu.
On June 21, Hassan Mohamed Ali, head of the U.N. High Commissioner for
Refugees organization in Mogadishu, was abducted from his home on the
outskirts of the capital.
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AP reporter Mohamed Olad Hassan in Mogadishu contributed to this report.
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