Indian Peacekeeper Injured in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Attack

Indian Peacekeeper Injured in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Attack

United Nations: An attack by a rebel group has injured an Indian police peacekeeper serving an UN operation in a Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) area facing the Ebola crisis, an UN official said. Stephane Dujarric, the spokesperson for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday that the attack was carried out by “suspected” Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) late on Friday evening in the Boikene area in North Kivu Province. “The member of the Indian police unit stationed there was “lightly wounded,” he said. He, however, did not identify the injured person. The outbreak of Ebola disease has intensified the crisis in the DRC that has been in the throes of ongoing battles with marauding rebel forces that have claimed the lives of 154 peacekeepers, 15 of them Indians. (IANS)

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