UN Somalia envoy demands perpetrators face justice after killing

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MOGADISHU, Somalia, December 15, 2015 (Garowe Online)-United Nations envoy to Somalia, Ambassador Nicholas Kay has said that he was shocked by the killing of two staffers working for top Refugee Agency, urging justice on Tuesday, Garowe Online reports.

“[I am] deeply shocked at killing today of Amina Mohamed Nur & Abdirisak Adan Adawe. May they rest in peace. Perpetrators must face justice. So sad,” he wrote on his twitter.

EU Ambassador Michele Cervone d’Urso reacted to the incident in similar manner, calling the heinous act ‘despicable murder’.

Unidentified assailants shot and killed the UNHCR workers on Mogadishu’s Maka Al Mukarama road on Monday.

Security officials are insisting that search operations are ongoing over the killing of two humanitarian workers.

GAROWE ONLINE 

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