Red Cross office hit by shells in Ukraine, 1 dead

DONETSK, Oct 3(AP): A Red Cross worker was killed by shelling in the rebel-held city of Donetsk, the aid group said Thursday.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said Laurent DuPasquier, a 38-year-old Swiss national, died when a shell landed near the group's office in the eastern Ukrainian city.

"We are deeply shocked by this tragic loss," Dominik Stillhart, the Geneva-based organization's director of operations, said in a statement.

DuPasquier had worked for the Red Cross for more than five years in Pakistan, Yemen, Haiti, Egypt and Papua New Guinea, before taking up his post in Ukraine six weeks ago.