U.N. aid worker killed in ambush
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From Times Wire Reports
The United Nations food aid agency said one of its workers had been fatally shot in an ambush while driving emergency rations through Afghanistan.
The World Food Program said the Afghan man, named Ezatollah, was driving a truck carrying 14 tons of high-energy biscuits from Kandahar to Helmand early Sunday when he was attacked. The driver’s assistant was abducted and has not been seen since, it said. The truck has not been recovered.
WFP trucks have been attacked in the area before. In October, three WFP drivers were killed in Darfur, Sudan.
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