SUDAN: Three aid workers missing, one killed

NAIROBI, 30 July 2002 (IRIN) - Three international aid workers working with the Christian relief organisation, World Vision, were reported missing on Monday and a fourth was killed during an attack in Waat, Upper Nile, southern Sudan. "After fighting in the town, one Kenyan national was killed and another Kenyan and two Germans are missing," Alison Preston, communications officer with World Vision told IRIN on Tuesday. "We don't know who did this, or why," she added. "We are working with the United Nations to secure their release," she said. The German news agency DPA quoted an official from Operation Lifeline Sudan - a consortium of UN agencies and international relief organisations working in Sudan - as saying the attack was against a prison which was about 100 metres behind the World Vision compound in Waat. "In the course of the firefight, it was a stray bullet that killed the Kenyan," he said. UN and World Vision officials contacted by IRIN declined to comment on whether the current whereabouts of the three are known.