2 UN workers shot dead in Somalia

Two UN workers, a Briton and a Frenchman, were shot dead on Monday as they disembarked from a plane at an airport in Galkayo, central Somalia, officials and witnesses said. United Nations sources confirmed the two men were international consultants with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Britain's Foreign Office confirmed one was a Briton, and sources identified the second victim as a Frenchman. "Two white men have been shot inside the airport as they got off a plane," local security official Mohamed Mire said. An airport official said the attacker was dressed in a police uniform, according to AFP.