600 UN staff relocated after attack
Updated on 05 November 2009
The United Nations has said it is temporarily relocating more than half its staff in Afghanistan following last week's deadly Taliban attack.
The UN mission is still reeling from a pre-dawn assault on a guesthouse in the capital last week that left five UN staff dead. The Kabul attack was the most direct targeting of UN employees during the organisation's decades of work in the country.
Some 600 non-essential staff will be moved for four to five weeks to more secure locations in and outside Afghanistan while the body works to find safer permanent housing, spokesman Aleem Siddique said.
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