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UN to evacuate foreign employees to Jordan after deadliest bombing
The United Nations will evacuate all its foreign staff members in Baghdad to Jordan, Qatar-based al-Jazeera TV channel reported on Wednesday.
The decision came after the United Nations suffered its first heavy blow in Iraq when a deadly truck bombing at its headquarters in Baghdad killed at least 17 people, including top UN envoy to Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello.
Dozens of others were wounded in the explosion, which hit the UN’s Canal Hotel headquarters at 4:40 p.m. (1240 GMT) Tuesday.
Observers presumed that the United Nations will suspend all its humanitarian activities in the war-torn country, such as the arrangement of repatriation of Iraqi refugees.
The United Nations evacuated all its staff members before the US-led war on Iraq started in March and only had them returned fourmonths ago.
Xinhua news
