Somalia: Two Aid Workers Killed in Somaliland

Nairobi — Two aid workers working for the German development agency (GTZ) in the self-declared republic of Somaliland were killed when their car was ambushed on the road between the capital Hargeysa, and the port town of Berbera, a local journalist in Hargeysa told IRIN on Monday.

The two, a Kenyan and a Somali, were killed on Friday by unknown gunmen, who also wounded a German colleague and a policeman travelling with them as their security escort, said the journalist. Police, he added, said they had apprehended five men, "who are now in a Hargeysa prison where they are being interrogated". They were arrested in the village of Dhokhoshey, some 430 km east of Hargeysa, he added.

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