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UNAMID
condemns ambush on peacekeepers in Northern Darfur |
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 ADDIS
ABABA(July 11,2008) -
The Joint AU/UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) joins the Secretary-General
of the United Nations in condemning in the strongest terms the attack
on its peacekeepers that took place on the evening of 8 July in North
Darfur.
"AU/UN peacekeepers are here to assist the people of Sudan and
any attack on them is totally unacceptable," UNAMID Joint Special
Representative, Rodolphe Adada said in a statement e-mailed to The
Daily Monitor on Thursday.
"I would like to express my deepest condolences to the families
of the peacekeepers who lost their lives," he added. The joint
UNAMID military and police patrol team was ambushed by unknown armed
men in Um Hakibah village (12 km west of Wadah, 100 km southeast of
El Fasher) while on their way back to their camp in Shangil Tobaya
from an investigation patrol, according to the statement.
UNAMID said the perpetrators were onboard 40 vehicles mounted with
heavy machine guns, anti-aircrafts and recoilless weapons.
It said that, during the attack, the team was engaged in a heavy and
sustained fire, which lasted for about three hours, resulting in the
loss of seven peacekeepers' lives including twenty-two who were wounded.
The Hybrid force said the injured personnel are being evacuated to
Khartoum for treatment and added that no peacekeepers were missing
this time around. |
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