Update on the kidnapping of the six Indian peacekeepers in Congo.

The six men and a local interpreter, serving with the United Nations mission in strife-torn Congo, were wounded when their patrol was ambushed in what is being termed as a "targetted and deliberate" attack.

The six peacekeepers were part of the Indian contingent serving with the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in Democratic Republic of Congo. They were ambushed along with their interpreter while returning from a patrol with 12 other peacekeepers near Buganza in North Kivu province on October 17 after finding the bodies of four civilians, the mission said in a news release.

"This premeditated, targeted and deliberate attack is inadmissible," said the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative and head of MONUSCO, Roger Meece. "We will work with the national authorities to identify those responsible for this ignoble deed so that they are called to justice."