afrol News, 10 April - Two more truckers working for the UN food agency, World Food Programme (WFP) had been added to the list of murdered humanitarian workers murdered in South Sudan.

A WFP-cotracted trucker, Hamid Dafaalla, 47, and father of four, was shot dead by unknown assailants on his way back from delivering humanitarian food supplies to the town of Rumbek on Monday. His assistant was shot while trying to flee.

The Monday attack, which took place near the city of Mayom in Unity State, puts the number of WFP humanitarian suppliers to five in less than three weeks.

“We are shocked and saddened by this heartless killing,” WFP Sudan Deputy-Director Ebenezer Tagoe said. He described attacks against vehicles delivering humanitarian assistance as "completely unacceptable."

“We have met representatives of the Government of Southern Sudan and they have promised a full investigation,” he said.

Attacks have not slowed food deliveries, but it also prevented the WFP from feeding thousands of returning internally displaced persons and refugees.

Since the start of 2008, the UN food agency reported 60 hijackings of trucks in Darfur. Of these, 42 trucks went missing and 29 drivers unaccounted for.

By staff writer

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