At least 19 affiliated with the United Nations were among those killed in the crash Sunday of an Ethiopian Airlines jet near Addis Ababa, ...
UNITED NATIONS: At least 19 people affiliated with the United Nations were among those killed in the crash on Sunday of anAuthorities said all 157 people on board were killed when the Boeing 737 crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa on a flight to Nairobi, where the UN conference was being held."Early indications are that 19 staff members of UN affiliated organisations perished," said International Organisation for Migration head Antonio Vitorino.
Meanwhile World Food Program director David Beasley, who confirmed seven of his staff had died, said:"As we mourn, let us reflect that each of these WFP colleagues were willing to travel and work far from their homes and loved ones to help make the world a better place to live." A UN source had earlier added that that freelance interpreters traveling to a UN conference on the environment might also be among the dead.
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