According to a UN spokesman, a fire broke out in the helicopter at around 3 pm, in which a peacekeeper died.
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Central Africa In United Nations Of helicopter has been attacked in which one peacemaker has been killed while the other is injured. this attack Congo Occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). A UN spokesman told AFP that the helicopter caught fire at around 3:00 pm (1200 GMT) while taking off from Goma, the provincial capital of Nord-Kivu province.
Militias have plagued the mineral-rich eastern DRC for decades. Many of them are a legacy of the regional wars that flared up in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Since November 2021, the M23 rebel group has captured large parts of the region and come within miles of Goma, the former main commercial centre.
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East African leaders on Saturday called for an immediate ceasefire in eastern DRC at a summit called to find ways to defuse the raging conflict. The talks were hosted in Burundi by the seven-nation East African Community (EAC), which is leading mediation efforts to end the fighting in the vast Central African nation.
Let me tell you, earlier the news of the death of two BSF jawans posted in the UN peacekeeping force in Congo had also come to the fore. Regarding the soldiers killed in the attack, Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar had expressed grief. He had said that the accountability of the criminals should be fixed. This news came to the fore last year.
He had tweeted, Deeply saddened by the death of two brave Indian peacekeepers of BSF in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They were part of MONUSCO. The perpetrators of these outrageous attacks must be held accountable and brought to justice, he said.
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