Red Cross driver shot dead in Ethiopia
The vehicle was "clearly marked with the protective Red Crescent emblem," the organisation said.
A Red Cross ambulance driver was shot and mortally wounded in Ethiopia, the IFRC said Friday, the seventh member of the world's largest humanitarian network to be killed this year.
The shooting of the driver, an Ethiopian member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, happened in the northern Tigray region, said the IFRC.
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"Woldu Aregawi Berha -- an ambulance driver -- was shot while in a vehicle clearly marked with the Red Cross emblem," it added.
"He was severely injured and died before reaching hospital."
Condemning the killing, the IFRC added: "Since the start of the year, seven members of the IFRC network teams lost their lives while carrying out their life-saving humanitarian work.
"This is unacceptable. They are not a target."
The IFRC confirmed Thursday that four ambulance team members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the two patients they were transporting, had been killed in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
The vehicle was "clearly marked with the protective Red Crescent emblem," the organisation said.
The IFRC brings together more than 16 million volunteers around the world to help vulnerable people affected by disasters and health emergencies.
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