China has confirmed that several of its citizens have been killed and disappeared in an armed attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo DRC on Thursday.
Local sources said at least four Chinese nationals were killed in an attack by armed militants on a mining site in the gold-rich Ituri province on Wednesday.
Beijing’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that armed forces attacked a private Chinese company in the DRC. The ministry informed that many Chinese citizens died or disappeared after the attack.
China strongly condemned the attack and demanded that the government find the killers as soon as possible and punish them severely in accordance with the law, said Mao Ning, a spokesman for the ministry, in a regular press conference.
Attacks on mining sites in the DRC are frequent, as are conflicts between Congolese residents and Chinese miners over gold.
Some local sources said the involvement of a local militant group, Kodeko, in Wednesday’s incident. Codeko claims to defend the interests of the Lendu tribe against the rival Hema tribe.
Codeco confirmed the attack on a Chinese mining site, according to Provincial Assistant Jean-Pierre Bikilisende, from Abombi town in the Zugu region of Ituri. He said that the first figures of four Chinese killed and two Congolese army members injured have been confirmed.
Other local sources reported that six Chinese nationals, their bodyguards, two Congolese soldiers and two civilians were killed. agency
Trending Now
- एघार करोडको चिया झापाबाट निर्यात
- Finland, Sweden and Norway issue war alert, urge citizens to avoid Russian attack
- The US was angry after the court issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu
- दुर्गा प्रसाईं समर्थकद्वारा कोटेश्वर क्षेत्रमा प्रदर्शन सुरू
- रम्बास कविता: विश्वभ्रमण
- Russia fires intercontinental ballistic missile at Ukraine
- चलचित्र तेल भिसा र अग्निदहन आजदेखि प्रदर्शन हुँदै
- जीवराज भट्टराईको कथासङ्ग्रह “अभिशप्त कुइनेटाहरु” विमोचित
- More than 40 killed in attack by unknown gunmen in Pakistan
- प्रधानमन्त्री ओलीसँग भेटवार्ता गर्दै भारतीय सेनाध्यक्ष द्विवेदी, आजै रक्षामन्त्रीलाई पनि भेट्ने
Comments are closed.