Roadside bomb kills three U.N. peacekeepers in Central African Republic

A roadside bomb killed three United Nations peacekeepers from Bangladesh and injured a number of others in northwest Central African Republic on Monday, the U.N. stated.

The assault occurred close to the village of Kaita, near the border with Cameroon, in an space rife with militia exercise.

“The battalion was carrying out a patrol… when 1 of its vehicles hit an explosive device,” the peacekeeping mission MINUSCA stated in a tweet late on Tuesday.

No militia was immediately blamed for the assault, though MINUSCA head Valentine Rugwabiza condemned “the use of explosive devices by armed groups.”

MINUSCA stated it has launched an investigation into the explosion.

Central African Republic has been rocked by violence since 2013 when primarily Muslim Seleka rebels ousted then president Francois Bozize, prompting reprisals from largely Christian militias.

The battle has uprooted multiple million folks, in keeping with the U.N.

Violence waned after a shaky peace accord was signed in February 2019 between the federal government and 14 armed teams, however the scenario stays unstable as swathes of territory are nonetheless exterior authorities management in one of many world’s poorest international locations.

U.N. peacekeepers had been deployed to CAR in 2014. The mission at present counts simply over 14,200 uniformed personnel and has suffered 147 fatalities, its web site says.