Three Bangladeshi peacekeepers were injured when their vehicle drove over a mine in Central African Republic’s troubled northwest, the UN mission said Saturday. Two were seriously hurt in Friday’s incident in Bohong in Ouham-Pende province more than 500 kilometres (310 miles) from the capital Bangui, the MINUSCA mission said. On Thursday, three Tanzanian peacekeepers were wounded in a mine explosion in the west. Mines have killed eight people, including two women and a five-year-old child, in the restive northwest since August, according to MINUSCA. After several years of a simmering continuation of the civil war that erupted in 2013, recent months have seen a spike in violence.

Source: The Guardian January 01, 2022 14:08 UTC