Rabat - A Moroccan and three Cambodian of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) missing after attackers ambushed their convoy in Central African Republic on Monday, Cambodian officials told Associated Press Tuesday.
Rabat – A Moroccan and three Cambodian of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) missing after attackers ambushed their convoy in Central African Republic on Monday, Cambodian officials told Associated Press Tuesday.
An ambush on a United Nations convoy in the Central African Republic left one Cambodian peacekeeping soldier dead and seven Moroccans injured, Cambodian officials told the Associated Press Tuesday. Three Cambodians soldiers and one Moroccan are still missing and may have been taken hostage.
The soldiers were part of the the UN Stabilizing Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), established in 2014 in response to the country’s ongoing civil war.
The incident occurred while the Cambodians were returning to their base accompanied by Moroccan soldiers, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen wrote on his Facebook page.
The Cambodians were part of an engineering unit that was assisting the construction of roads, bridges and other infrastructure, he added.
This is not the first time peacekeepers have been targeted in the Central African Republic.
In January 2017, two Moroccan members of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) squad of the MINUSCA were killed in an armed attack near the town of Bria, on the northeast of the capital Bangui.
MINUSCA has currently more than 12,000 troops deployed to protect civilians from the repercussion of violence between Christian and Muslim sects.
