Gunmen Kidnap UNICEF Worker
From Times Wire Reports
Gunmen abducted an American working for the United Nations in southern Somalia, U.N. officials said.
Robert McCarthy of the U.N. Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, was kidnapped on the outskirts of Afmadow, 70 miles northwest of the southern port of Kismayo, said Sandra Macharia, a U.N. spokeswoman in Somalia.
She declined to comment on the circumstances of the abduction, whether the U.N. knew the identity of the kidnappers or if there had been any demands.
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