Three protesters were killed in the capital of the Central African
Republic on Monday when UN peacekeepers opened fire on several hundred
people marching on the president's office, a hospital source said.
A
further seven were injured by gunfire as the crowd headed for the
presidency to demand the resignation of interim president Catherine
Samba Panza following weekend violence in Bangui that claimed at least
20 lives, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Samba Panza is currently in New York attending the UN General Assembly.
After
the break-up of the protest, shooting broke out elsewhere in the city,
and the hospital source said a teenager had died after being hit by "a
stray bullet".
Bangui
was tense throughout the day on Monday, with barricades thrown up
across the heart of the
city and French and UN peacekeepers positioned
at key points after the breakout of violence this weekend.
Medical
sources have said that in addition to the more than 20 dead, around 100
people were wounded in Saturday's violence sparked by the murder of a
motorcycle-taxi driver in central Bangui's Muslim-majority PK-5
neighbourhood.
The area was the epicentre of unprecedented killings between Christians and Muslims in the city in late 2013 and early 2014.
French
soldiers and UN peacekeepers remain in the former French colony where
thousands of people died in the violence and hundreds of thousands
remain displaced from their homes.
Monday, September 28, 2015
UN peacekeepers kill 3 in Bangui
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