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37 International Rescue Committee Staff Members Are Missing After Rebels Attack Refugee Camp in Northern Uganda
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NEW YORK, Aug. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The International Rescue
Committee (IRC) said today that it had lost contact with 37 staff
members working in a Ugandan refugee camp that was overrun and
destroyed by rebel soldiers from the notorious Lord's Resistance
Army.
After the attack early today on Achol Pii Camp, its population of
24,000 refugees-all from southern Sudan- fled into the bush or headed
south to the towns of Rackoko and Lira.
All of the missing IRC staff members are Ugan...
