How a suicide bomb attack changed the lives of UN aid workers
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Two decades ago the UN's Baghdad office was hit with a deadly blast - staff share their experiences.

On 19 August 2003, the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad was targeted in a suicide bomb attack. The head of the UN mission, Sergio Viera de Mello, was killed, along with 21 others, most of them staff. The attack changed the way the UN carries out humanitarian operations. It also changed the lives...

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