In 1996 two Canadian aid workers were killed in a short period in different incidents . Tim Stone , the executive director of the organization PATH Canada ( '' Programme for Appropriate Technology in Health '' ) died in the crash of hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 on the Comoros Islands . Three weeks later 51-year-old nurse Nancy Malloy of the Canadian Red Cross and working with the International Committee of the Red Cross died in a field hospital in the Chechen city Novye Atagi near Grozny . She was murdered in her sleep along with five other colleagues by unknown assailants
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
Monument to Canadian Aid Workers