Nepalese UN soldier killed in DR Congo
AFP, Kinshasa
A Nepalese UN peacekeeper died overnight from injuries he sustained in an attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled region of Ituri, the UN mission here announced yesterday. The soldier was among four Nepalese peacekeepers wounded Thursday in the attack on three helicopters that came under heavy fire as they were about to take off from Lugo, in the northeastern region of Ituri, during an evacuation mission. "He was the last one to board the helicopter and he was hit just as he was about to get on," MONUC spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Thierry Provendier told AFP. He said the three other injured were being treated at a hospital in Bunia, the main town in Ituri, and were out of danger. The peacekeeper's death brings to 18 the number of UN soldiers killed in the central African country since the UN mission, knows as MONUC, was deployed there in 1999. Eleven of those who died were killed in ambush attacks in the Ituri region.
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