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British aid worker among ambush victims

    NAIROBI

    A British aid worker, Charlotte Wilson, was among the 21 people murdered in an ambush by rebels in Burundi last week, AFP reported. Wilson, 27, was working with Voluntary Service Oversees (VSO), a British organisation, as a science teacher at Shyogwe secondary school in neighbouring Rwanda, AFP said.

    She was among at least 21 people, all civilians except one soldier, who were killed when rebels held up three vehicles near Bujumbura last week. She was in a bus which, along with a lorry and a pick-up truck, were going to Bujumbura when they were stopped by a barricade and passengers ordered out and executed one by one, some 30 km northeast of the capital near Kinama.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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