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The United Nations on Tuesday condemned the killing of four peacekeepers in Central African Republic following an attack on their convoy late in the day before by Christian militants in the southeast of the country, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
One peacekeeper, from Cambodia, was killed by gunfire during Monday’s attack near the town of Bangassou, about 730 km (450 miles) east of the capital Bangui, the U.N. mission (MINUSCA) said in a statement.
Three other peacekeepers were found dead on Tuesday, having gone missing during the attack, and one peacekeeper remains missing, Dujarric told reporters. He also said eight Christian anti-balaka militants were killed and several were injured during Monday’s attack.
The attack came after five international aid agencies temporarily suspended their operations in northern Central African Republic last week because of attacks on humanitarian workers by armed groups.
Central African Republic is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for aid agencies, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said last week, with at least 33 attacks on aid workers in the first quarter of 2017.
Around 425,000 people have been uprooted by the fighting within Central African Republic, some 465,000 have fled to neighboring countries, and more than 2.2 million, nearly half the population, need humanitarian aid, according to OCHA.
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