Unknown assailants in Somalia have shot dead the senior United Nations official in the capital, Mogadishu.
Osman Ali Ahmed, the head of the UN Development Programme in Somalia, was shot numerous times in the head and chest as he left a mosque. He died later in hospital. His son and another man were also hurt in the attack. Aid groups have scaled down operations owing to increased insecurity. UN officials have repeatedly appealed to the Somali government and Islamist insurgents to spare aid workers.
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