4 Aid Workers Still Missing
From Times Wire Reports
U.N. officials sought the release of four foreign aid workers who were seized by gunmen during fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia’s war-ravaged capital. Five other workers were freed early Wednesday and evacuated to neighboring Kenya.
U.N. spokeswoman Sonya Laurence Green said the four missing U.N. employees--two Britons, an Algerian and a Belgian--”have not been precisely located” but are believed to be in the hands of Somali warlord Musa Sudi Yalahow.
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