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Chief of UN refugee agency in Somalia kidnapped
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-06-22 15:23

MOGADISHU  -- The chief of the UN refugee agency in Mogadishu, capital of Somalia,  has been kidnapped from his home by unknown gunmen, witnesses said Sunday.

Hassan Mohamed Ali had been taken to an unknown location by heavy armed men in two cars who raided his home in Elasha Biyaha, between Mogadishu and the southwestern town of Afgoye, witnesses told Xinhua.

"The men with two cars stopped in front of his home and forced themselves in and taking him in their car," Mohamed Yare, an eyewitness told Xinhua.

"They took him away but we do not know where," the eyewitness said.