Five Rwandan troops killed in C Africa shooting drama: army
A Rwandan UN peacekeeper in the Central African Republic shot dead four colleagues on Saturday and injured eight others before being gunned down, military sources said.
It was the worst such incident to hit the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, known by its French acronym of MINUSCA, since it was deployed in September last year following inter-religious clashes that claimed hundreds of lives.
"A Rwandan soldier picked up his gun and killed his colleagues before being felled. There were five dead and eight injured," said a source close to the UN mission in Central Africa, known by its French acronym of MINUSCA.
A Central African army official also confirmed the toll but Rwandan military officials were unavailable for comment.
The MINUSCA force comprises 10,800 troops drawn from Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, Morocco, Senegal, Pakistan and Indonesia.
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