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Article: Writethru: Chief of UN refugee agency in Somalia kidnapped
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 22, 2008
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Writethru: Chief of UN refugee agency in Somalia kidnapped
MOGADISHU, June 22 (Xinhua) -- The chief of the UN refugee agency
in Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, has been kidnapped from his home
by unknown gunmen, witnesses said Sunday.
Hassan Mohamed Ali had been taken to an unknown location by heavy
armed men in two cars who raided his home in Elasha Biyaha, between
Mogadishu and the southwestern town of Afgoye, witnesses told
Xinhua.
"The men with two cars stopped in front of his home and forced
themselves in and taking him in their car," Mohamed Yare, an
eyewitness told Xinhua,
"They took him away but we do not know where," the eyewitness
said.
Hundreds of thousands of displaced ...