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    A staff member of the NGO Concern was killed by Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels in Freetown on Monday, a Concern statement received by IRIN today said. It said Taiwu Kamara, a 30-year-old Sierra Leonean programme monitor, was shot while trying to escape from a building that had been set alight by the rebels in the Kissy neighbourhood. He was one several Concern employees with whom contact had been lost over the weekend after NGOs’ communications equipment had been confiscated by ECOMOG, the statement added. The NGO hoped to quickly reestablish its humanitarian activities in the city, the statement said, adding that there was an urgent need to provide food, shelter and health assistance to civilians there.

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