1 peacekeeper killed, 3 wounded in Central African Republic
Mainly Christian anti-Balaka forces attacked a U.N. police checkpoint in Central African Republic on Monday, killing one U.N. peacekeeper and wounding three others, the United Nations said.
The attack took place at the entrance to a camp for displaced people in the southeastern town of Bria after peacekeepers intervened to free two displaced people being held hostage by anti-Balaka forces, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
He said the peacekeeper who died and two of the wounded were from Mauritania. The third injured peacekeeper was from Zambia.
Dujarric said the Mauritanian was the 14th peacekeeper killed in Central African Republic this year.