UN radio says 3 killed in Congolese army’s attack on UN agency car in volatile eastern Congo
By APTuesday, February 23, 2010
UN: 3 killed in Congo army attack on UN agency car
KINSHASA, Congo — A U.N.-run radio station says three people were killed when Congolese soldiers attacked a U.N. agency car and tried to loot it in volatile eastern Congo.
Radio Okapi says the soldiers attacked the International Organization for Migration car in South Kivu province on Monday.
The radio station says one civilian and two soldiers were killed in the attack after the police escorting the car fired back at the soldiers. Five people were wounded.
U.N. and Congolese army officials did not immediately comment. Human rights groups have previously accused Congo’s poorly trained and irregularly paid army forces of attacking civilians.
Eastern Congo has been wracked by violence since Rwanda’s 1994 genocide spilled war across the border.
