Attack on UN helicopter. A general and several dozen soldiers are dead

At least 27 South Southeast soldiers were killed on Friday, March 7, in an UN helicopter attack. The machine tried to evacuate military from the city of Nasir. Representatives of the UN mission are demanding an investigation in this matter and punishing guilty. Fears of the re -outbreak of the civil war are growing.

South Sudan. Attack on UN helicopter. There are victims

One of the UN helicopter crew members were to die in the assassination, and among the victims there was one of the generals of the South Sudan army. The helicopter tried to take government forces from the besieged city of Nasir in the north-eastern part of the country.

Reuters reported that it is not known who carried out the attack. UN mission in Sudan Sud. She reported in a statement that in Nasir there were fierce battles between government forces and the so -called The White Army – paramilitary troops of the Nuer ethnic group, which lives in this part of Sudan South. and in the west of Ethiopia.

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Attack on UN helicopter. There are victims

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Attack on a UN helicopter in South Sudan.