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UK aid worker killed in Sudan
07/11/2005 21:05 - (SA)
Kampala - A British aid worker was ambushed and fatally shot by Ugandan rebels in Sudan, said officials on Monday.
The attack was the second time the Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels had targeted aid workers in their 19-year insurgency in Uganda that they fought from rear bases in neighbouring Sudan.
On October 26, the rebels made their first attack on aid workers in northern Uganda.
Andreas Zetterlund of the International Aid Services agency for which Lee worked, said Collin Lee, 67, and his wife were travelling from Uganda to the Sudanese town of Yei on Saturday when their vehicle was ambushed by the rebels.
Zetterlund said Lee's wife, who was pregnant, was uninjured in the attack. Chris Magezi of the Ugandan military said the wife was recuperating in a hospital in Uganda.
Magezi, who was speaking from Gulu, said Ugandan soldiers and troops from the Sudan People's Liberation Army, in control of large areas of southern Sudan, rescued the aid workers and their driver on Sunday.
Magezi said: "The rebels burnt down their car before taking out valuables, including money and a radio."
He said the 20 or so rebels fled in the direction of Congo, "and we didn't capture them. "We put a lot of pressure on them and they simply abandoned their captives. The captives were not wounded during the rescue".
Last month at least two aid agencies indefinitely suspended their work in northern Uganda after LRA rebels killed two aid workers in two separate ambushes.
- AP
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