U.N. calls for justice after fatal shooting of Myanmar WHO worker


  • World
  • Thursday, 09 Jun 2022

FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured though a window with the UN logo in the foreground in the Manhattan borough of New York August 15, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

(Corrects typo in headline in word "shooting")

(Reuters) - The United Nations condemned on Thursday the fatal shooting of a World Health Organization (WHO) employee in eastern Myanmar, the latest in a string of assassinations underlining the chaos in the country since last year's coup.

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