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	Thomas was headed to Melbourne for a global Aids conference along with dozens of others on the flight that ended in tragedy on Thursday.</div>
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	&quot;It is with deep sadness that WHO lost one of our colleagues in the Malaysia crash,&quot; communications official Gregory Hartl told reporters in Geneva.</div>
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	Thomas came to WHO from the BBC and was passionate about public health issues, Hartl said, flanked by press service colleagues, several in tears.</div>
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	&quot;His twin sister said he died doing what he loves,&quot; Hartl said, adding that no other UN staff were aboard the doomed airliner.</div>
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	Many of the journalists attending the briefing had worked with Thomas, and a minute of silence was held in his memory.</div>
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	AFP</div>

WHO spokesman among dead in Malaysia Airlines crash

GENEVA - Glen Thomas, a spokesman for the World Health Organisation, was among the 298 people killed in the crash in eastern Ukraine of a Malaysia Airlines jet, the UN agency said Friday.