4 held for aid worker murders
2003-10-22 09:27
Mogadishu - At least four people have been arrested in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland in connection with the murder of two British aid workers, police in the territory said on Tuesday.
"Four people have been arrested and a vehicle siezed," police told reporters, refusing to give further details.
Other sources said that as many as 12 people had been arrested near the scene of the murder at Sheikh and elsewhere after they had left the place following the murder.
The two slain workers, Richard Eyeington, 63, and his wife Enid, 61, worked in the Sheikh secondary school, situated in a small town of the same name south of the port of Berbera.
They were the school's manager and educational adviser, said Maria Essajee, an official of SOS Kinderdorf International (SOS International Children's Village), the Austrian-based organisation running the school.