At least 19 UN-affiliated personnel killed in Ethiopian crash vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
This handout photograph released from the Twitter account of Ethiopian Airlines on March 10, 2019, shows a man inspecting what is believed to be wreckage at the crash site of an Ethiopia Airlines aircraft near Bishoftu, a town some 60 kilometres southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
“Early indications are that 19 staff members of UN affiliated organizations perished,” said International Organization for Migration head Antonio Vitorino.“Numerous other staff members from at least five UN and affiliated organizations are understood to have also perished,” he said. Along with the IOM, the World Food Program, UN Refugee Agency, World Bank, UN Environment Agency and others lost colleagues, he said.
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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