A United Nations World Food Programme staff member has been killed in an attack in Taiz province in southern Yemen, the WFP and Yemen’s health minister have said.
Health minister Qasem Buhaibeh tweeted his condolences to the staffer’s family on Friday, calling for security forces to “arrest the criminals” responsible for the killing.
He had previously identified the staffer before later removing his name and nationality.
Later on Friday, the WFP said that it was “deeply saddened” that the staff member had been killed.
An unknown gunman on a motorbike shot dead the World Food Programme employee while he was having lunch at a restaurant in Turbah, a town in southwestern Yemen’s Taiz governorate, a source told the DPA news agency on condition of anonymity.
The assailant then escaped while the victim’s body was transferred to a local hospital, according to the source.
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