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An AVSI national staff killed at Rutchuru, on manday 15thDec08

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Incident Report Description

The UN OCHA office in Goma called for a meeting in Kiwandja on Monday 15th. All INGOs were invited to attend the meeting, especially those operating in Kiwandja Rutchuru area. Around 1h pm in Kiwandja, waiting for the beginning of the meeting, we got news that an AVSI vehicle has been attacked and shot on (AVSI is an Italian INGO) It has two staffs, one driver and one passenger. They just saw 4 armed men from the bush that started to shoot on their vehicle, and the passenger Mr. Baudouin died few minutes later at the place of the incident and the driver were injured, he got 3 bullets. According to the Rutchuru doctor, the driver might be saved after medical treatments. They were going to attend the Inter agencies meeting organised by UN OCHA in Kiwandja.
Baudouin the victim who died was the monitoring responsible for AVSI in Nord kivu office.
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