MOGADISHU
Two United Nations workers were shot dead on Monday in northeastern Somalia, a security source said.
"A police officer from Puntland region administration forces shot the two U.N. foreign personnel as they were getting off the plane in Galkayo Airport, killing them instantly," the security source, requesting anonymity, told Anadolu Agency.
The policeman who reportedly shot the two U.N. workers was arrested and taken to a local police station, the source said, without providing additional details.
Somali authorities have yet to comment on the report.
Somalia has remained in the grip of on-again, off-again violence since the outbreak of civil war in 1991.
The country had appeared to inch closer to stability with the recent installation of a new government and the intervention of African Union troops tasked with combatting Somalia's Al-Shabaab militant group.
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