Two Aid Workers Killed in Somalia

Published April 10, 2009 @ 08:13AM PT

This is completely [expletive] out of control - two more aid workers have been killed, this time in Somalia. According to The Age newspaper:

"Hooded gunmen have shot dead two Somali aid workers and their driver in a southwestern town near the border with Ethiopia, officials and witnesses say.

The head of Juba Community Care relief group, which operates in southern Somalia, his colleague and the driver were killed as they were leaving for a field trip on Thursday."

The two men were killed in Elberde, a Government-controlled town in the Bakol region.

For those keeping count - nine aid workers have been killed in the past week alone, in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and now Somalia. (Not to mention two aid workers kidnapped in Darfur.)

A total of 39 aid workers have been killed this year.

Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and colleagues of those killed.

[Photo of a Somali Government soldiers from EPA / The Guardian]

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Michael has worked for NGOs in Afghanistan, across east and central Africa, and Iraq. Prior to going overseas, he worked on a project providing assistance to the United Nations on the application of International Humanitarian Law to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.