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Somalia: Well-known Somali aid worker killed south of Mogadishu Thu. August 07, 2008 08:33 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. - (SomaliNet) According to witnesses and relatives, a well-known Somali aid worker who had been running the country's largest orphanage for 18 years was gunned down on Wednesday south of Mogadishu. The Somali aid worker, Abdikadir Yusuf Kariye was the head of an orphanage in Lafole - a town some 20 kilometres south of Mogadishu - which has been providing shelter for many children fleeing the deadly civil strife in the capital. "Two unidentified men armed with handguns shot him three times in the head as he was entering his home. He is dead now," his younger brother Mohamed Yusuf Kariye said. "He leaves behind about 200 orphans in the centre he had been running for 18 years," he added. "Many orphans and displaced families will miss him, there's no doubt. Nobody knows why anyone would target a man like him, who looks after the needy," said Mohamed Moalim Ali, an elder in Lafole who witnessed the murder. "I saw the attackers running away after they shot him. He died on the spot, right in front of his house," he said. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of civilians have fled Mogadishu to live in camps in neighbouring towns since deadly violence erupted in late 2006, when Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia to oust the Islamic Courts Union militia. Islamist insurgents have since reverted to guerrilla warfare, launching almost daily attacks against Somali government forces as well as allied Ethiopian troops and African Union peacekeepers. Several international aid organisations and rights groups say at least 6 000 civilians have been killed in the violence over the past year alone.-Sapa News Category: Somalia Latest Headlines Latest News Nigeria: Militants say know whereabouts of kidnappe... Somalia: President Yusuf urges MPs to work togethe... Somalia: Two civilians killed as Islamist rebels at... Somalia: Somali pirates release Filipino crew held ... India: Army evacuates over 120,000 amidst flood scare... US plans to divert some marines from Iraq to Afghani... Zimbabwe: President Mugabe ready to form a new gov’t... Somalia: Muslim nations urged to step up aid to war... Sri Lanka: 36 rebels killed as gov’t troops, rebels c... Ethiopia: President Meles considers withdrawing... More News...