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Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The death of Zill-e Usman in Peshawar, Pakistan is the third death of a UNHCR (UN High Commissioner for Refugees) staff member in the country in six months, the Geneva-based organization announced 17 July. He was shot at the Kutcha Gari camp on the border of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in North-West Frontier Province on the morning of July 16. Another staff worker was injured but is not in serious condition and a guard was killed.

Zill-e Usman was one of the longest-serving staff members in the country, who had been working with the Peshawar office since 1984.UN staff in the Geneva office gathered at noon for a minute of silence to honour the slain father of four.

He was involved in resettlement work for the some two million persons displaced in recent months by fighting in the region.

UNHCR staff member Aleksandar Vorkapic died in the bombing of the Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar 9 June 2009. UNHCR senior driver Syed Hashim was killed 2 February 2009 in the kidnapping of John Solecki, head of the Quetta office, who was later released.