Indian peacekeeper killed in clashes in Congo

July 06, 2012 17:19

A UN soldier from India was killed in clashes between renegade soldiers and DR Congo troops on the border with Uganda, the United Nations saidtoday as the mutineers took a key border post.

The UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo said the Indian peacekeeper was fatally wounded by shrapnel during the fighting. "It wasn't a direct hit. He died from his wounds," MONUSCO spokesman Madnodje Mounoubai said.

The DR Congo's forces yesterday launched an offensive to rout the mutinous armed troops known as M23 near the Virunga national park which is home to one of the biggest populations of mountain gorillas.

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