8/7/06

International Aid delivery can be dangerous

Fifteen local aid staff working on post-tsunami rebuilding have been found executed in northeast Sri Lanka after heavy fighting, the main umbrella body for aid agencies in the country said on Sunday.

The Consortium for Humanitarian Agencies (CHA) said that one of the relief teams that reached the battered town of Mutur had found the corpses in an aid agency office.

"They found them in the office on the ground, lying face down -- executed," said CHA chief Jeevan Thiagarajah.

He said it was not clear who had killed them. Mutur town has seen days of fighting between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels.

[CNN]

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