Three peacekeepers in Sudan killed by gunmen
Sunday, December 6, 2009
- 29 August 2011: Sudanese President releases all detained journalists
- 10 July 2011: South Sudan gains independence
- 10 February 2011: South Sudan minister Milla shot, killed
- 17 July 2010: Sudanese Army claims to have killed 300 Darfur rebels in clashes
- 27 May 2010: Sudanese president sworn in to another term
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According to a spokesman for UNAMID, a peacekeeping force in Darfur, Sudan, three Rwandan soldiers were killed by gunmen in an ambush earlier today. Two other soldiers were hurt.
The spokesman, Kemal Saiki, commented that the ambush occurred close to a government checkpoint in the town of Saraf Umra, near Darfur. The peacekeeping troops returned fire at the gunmen, wounding one, but they evaded capture. The identities of the assailants was not immediately known.
Ban Ki-Moon, the United Nations Secretary General, released a statement in which he expressed his sympathy to the families of the killed soldiers.
With this incident, twenty peacekeepers have been killed in the Darfur region since January 2008, when the African Union and the UN dispatched armed forces to the region. Violence, however, has become less frequent in the past few months.
[edit] Sources
- "Gunmen kill 3 peacekeepers in Darfur ambush" — Associated Press, December 5, 2009
- "Third Rwandan peacekeeper dies after Darfur ambush" — Reuters Africa, December 5, 2009
