Gunmen kill two aid workers in Somalia

Mogadishu (Keydmedia) - Gunmen have killed two local aid workers with the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) after they fired a rocket propelled grenade at their vehicle in Somalia's central region of Galguduud.

The aid workers were killed on Thursday. They worked with Towfiq Development Organization, which is as a partner of the WFP. Their job was to deliver food aid to people in need.

On December 29, an assailant killed two foreign workers with the Doctors without Borders after he opened fire on them at the aid group's office in Somalia's war-torn capital Mogadishu.

Moreover, a resident of a refugee camp shot and killed three aid workers in central Somalia on December 23, including two workers with the WFP.

The attack took place in town of Matabaan, which is located about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the Ethiopian border in Somalia's central Hiran region.

The three Somalis were shot and killed as they returned from a camp for families displaced by violence and famine.

Somalia has the world's highest child mortality rate, with almost one in five children dying before their fifth birthday.

The mortality rate in 2010 stood at 180 deaths per every 1,000 live births, according to the latest data released by the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation.

The United Nations says that 250,000 Somalis are suffering from famine in three regions including Mogadishu.

Last year, less than a third of one-year-old children in Somalia were immunized, over 70 percent of the population lacked access to safe water, and only three out of every 10 children of primary school age were enrolled in school, according to the United Nations.

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