Romanian UN worker, Filaret Motco killed

Filaret Motco
Following the deadly attack on United Nations workers on Friday 1st April 2011 in Mazar-i-Sharif, Romanian citizen, Filaret Motco aged 43, is confirmed as one of the foreign workers killed.

He was Political Affairs Director and had worked for UN missions for 11 years, in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Russia, Chechnya, and Kyrgyzstan.

Four Nepalese guards were also killed along with two other foreign UN workers, Siri Skare from Norway and Joakim Dungel from Sweden. 

The previous day, but on a different continent, another UN aid worker, Zahra Abidi was killed in Ivory Coast, Africa.