Irish nurse killed in Somalia.
The murder of Irish nurse Valerie Place, pictured in Baidoa just two hours before she was shot by Somalian gunmen last week, has forced aid workers to take steps to protect themselves in the war- tom East African republic. Valerie, who had been in Somalia since finishing her nurse training at St James Hospital in Dublin last September, worked for the Irish humanitarian organisation Concern, which has 22 other nurses working in the country. Ms Place died when her car came under attack on the road outside Mogadishu. Jack Finucane, Head of Concern's Africa Division, said volunteers would no longer travel by road in Somalia. Nula Corcoran, Principal Tutor at St James Hospital in Dublin, said Valerie was a 'lovely person, with excellent potential'.