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UNITED NATIONS, April 14 (AFP) - At least seven UNICEF workers and 30 Red Cross workers have been killed in the violence sweeping Rwanda, the relief organizations announced Thursday.
UNICEF was unable to give an exact death toll, according to a statement released at UN headquarters in New York, but said that at least seven of its national staff and members of their families had been killed in the past few days.
Eleven international staff and their families have been evacuated, the statement said. UNICEF had a total of 55 workers in Rwanda before the violence broke out a week ago.
Earlier the International Federation of Red Cross announced that at least 30 of its workers had been killed in the east African country, the biggest loss of life in the organization's 75-year history.
The International Committee of the Red Cross also reported a narrowing of its activities after the slaughter of six injured people Thursday as they were being evacuated by Red Cross workers from the capital Kigali to a field hospital.
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