WORLD BRIEFING / SOMALIA - Los Angeles Times

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Gunmen fatally shot a U.N. World Food Program worker during a food distribution -- the second staff member killed this week, the agency and witnesses said.

Several gunmen ordered the Somali from his car in Mogadishu and shot him in the head and chest, said a witness.

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