Police: UN worker, guard killed in NW Pakistan
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ISLAMABAD – Gunmen killed a U.N. employee and a guard at a refugee camp in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, police said, in a blow to relief efforts aimed at the country’s humanitarian crisis.
Local police chief Ghayoor Afridi said the assailants tried to kidnap the U.N. official and opened fire when he resisted. Two Pakistanis working for the U.N. were also wounded in the attack at the Kacha Garhi camp near Peshawar, he said.
The chief of the U.N. refugee agency in Pakistan, Guenet Guebre-Christos, said the dead U.N. worker was a 59-year-old Pakistani who had worked for the U.N. for 30 years. She said the other man killed in the shooting was a guard at the camp and did not work for the U.N.
U.N. employees and foreigners in Pakistan have come under attack several times in recent months.
Earlier this year, American U.N. worker John Solecki was kidnapped and held for around two months in southwest Pakistan by suspected Baluch rebels before being freed. His driver was shot dead.
Last month, there were U.N. employees among the 11 people killed in a suicide bombing that devastated the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar.
In August of last year, Lynne Tracy, at the time the top U.S. diplomat in the northwest, narrowly survived an attack on her vehicle in Peshawar by suspected militants. In November, also in Peshawar, gunmen shot and killed American aid worker Stephen Vance.
Some 2 million Pakistanis have been driven from their homes in northwest Pakistan due to a military offensive against militants in the region — and many ended up in refugee camps. The violence led to a wave of humanitarian aid efforts by international organizations, raising the risk that relief workers could be targeted by militants.
Police: UN worker, guard killed in NW Pakistan - Yahoo! News
This is most unfortunate. These are desperate tactics of the ill-wishers of Pakistan, but i hope the Army keeps pressing on with the operations and finishes off TTP once and for all.
My condolences to the families of the victims.
Edit: Moderator, Can you fix the title please? It should read “Shooting at Refugee camp, 1 UN worker, Guard killed”. thanks