Kinshasa--An unknown number of UN peacekeepers were killed in an ambush near the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city Beni, the head of the MONUSCO mission, Martin Kobler, said Tuesday.
"It is with sadness and anger that I have just learned of the deaths of peacekeepers in an ambush near Beni," a trading hub in the north of troubled North Kivu province, Kobler said on his Twitter account, without stating the number killed.
AFP
