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Deaths of ICRC Staff on Mission: Sierra Leone: Two ICRC nurses killed in ambush

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

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On Friday 27 August 1993, at 10.30 a.m. local time, a convoy of the International Committee of the Red Cross was ambushed near the town of Gorahun in Sierra Leone. During the attack two ICRC nurses, Susanne Buser from Switzerland and Sarah Leomy, a local employee, were killed. Another ICRC nurse, Bernadette Peterhans, was injured.

Type
International Committee of the Red Cross
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 33 , Special Issue 296: International Conference for the Protection of War Victims , October 1993 , pp. 446
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1993

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