Sunday’s incident comes a day after leaders of the East African Neighborhood held a summit on the DRC disaster, in Burundi.
A United Nations peacekeeper has been killed within the japanese Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) when a helicopter operated by the peacekeeping power got here below hearth midair on Sunday, the UN mission known as MONUSCO stated.
The helicopter was capable of land within the provincial capital, Goma. It was attacked after taking off from the town of Beni within the early afternoon.
One other peacekeeper was severely wounded within the assault, MONUSCO stated in an announcement, which didn’t say who is likely to be accountable. The assertion didn’t say what weapon was fired on the helicopter or what brought on the casualties.
A UN peacekeeping mission of about 18,200 personnel has been deployed within the japanese DRC since taking up from a earlier UN operation in 2010. Its mandate contains supporting the DRC authorities’s effort to stabilise a area racked by insurgent violence.
Eight peacekeepers had been killed final 12 months when their helicopter crashed in North Kivu province, the place the Congolese military was combating the M23 insurgent group.
Sunday’s incident comes only a day after leaders of the East African Neighborhood held a summit in Burundi’s capital Bujumbura and reiterated a “name to all events to de-escalate tensions”.