
An ambush in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region wracked by fighting between the army and Ugandan rebels, killed two United Nations peacekeepers on Tuesday, officials said.
"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, the head of the UN mission Martin Kobler said on his Twitter account, adding that those killed were Tanzanian nationals.
Local administrator Amisi Kalonda, who also said two peacekeepers were killed, said Ugandan rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) staged the ambush in an area around Oicha, some 20 kilometres north of Beni.
— By Staff Writer & AFP