アルジェリア爆弾テロで WFP職員１名が死亡 (和文要約、本文は英文)
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火曜日にアルジェリアの首都・アルジェで起きた、国連施設に対する爆弾テロで、WFP職員１名の死亡が確認された。
死亡したのは経理を担当していたフィリピン人職員、ジーン・ルナ（48歳）。ジーンはアフガニスタンで 5年間勤務し、先週、アルジェに異動してきたばかりだった。WFP事務局長ジョゼット・シーランは潘基文事務総長らと共に犯行を強く非難すると共に、深い哀悼を表明した。
同じくWFP職員のリンダ・マトゥギも事件で負傷し、治療のため国外に搬送されることになっている。
WFPほか複数の国連機関が入った建物は全壊したが、WFP の職員の多くは事件発生時、研修のため職場におらず、難を逃れた。しかしながら人道支援活動を行なうWFP職員に対し危害を加える事件は後を絶たず、今年だけでも36 人が死傷もしくは拘束されている。
WFP mourns loss of aid worker in Algiers bombing
Rome, 12 December 2007 - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today mourned the loss of a staff member who was killed together with at least 45 other people in Tuesday’s terrorist bombing in Algiers.
WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran joined UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and others in condemning the attack and conveyed her condolences to the family of Gene Luna, the WFP staff member who died under the rubble.
WFP family
“We have lost a dedicated member of our WFP family, as well as many others who served to help those in need. I am outraged and saddened at this senseless act of violence against those helping the world’s most vulnerable. My thoughts are with the families and loved ones of those who died,” Sheeran said.
Luna, 48, was a Philippines national. She joined WFP in Afghanistan as a finance officer five years ago and had been transferred to Algiers only last week.
Sheeran also telephoned Lynda Matougui, another WFP staff member who was injured in the blast. She said everything possible would be done to help Matougui, who was pulled out of the rubble and is being evacuated today for medical treatment.
Destroyed
The third floor of the UN building housing the WFP offices was completely destroyed. However, most of the staff members were outside the office on a training course and therefore escaped the attack.
Sheeran said that despite the many security measures that WFP and other UN agencies have taken, this tragedy was a strong reminder of the risks that humanitarian workers take to help the poor and the hungry.
So far this year, 36 humanitarian workers serving WFP have been killed, injured or detained.