At least 23 dead in refugee camp attack

In the Central African Republic (CAR), at least 23 people were killed in an attack on a UN refugee camp in the north of the country, the Reuters news agency reports. The attack was carried out overnight on Wednesday by the mainly Muslim Seleka rebel group, according to UN officials quoted by Reuters. The militiamen […]

In the Central African Republic (CAR), at least 23 people were killed in an attack on a UN refugee camp in the north of the country, the Reuters news agency reports.
The attack was carried out overnight on Wednesday by the mainly Muslim Seleka rebel group, according to UN officials quoted by Reuters.
The militiamen reportedly killed 13 refugees before 10 of them were gunned down when soldiers from the UN mission in the country, Minusca, intervened. Hundreds of panicked villagers, already displaced by earlier violence, then fled in the direction of the UN base.
These violent incidents were the latest in the Central African Republic which has been in chaos since early 2013 when the Seleka toppled then-President Francois Bozize. CAR has been torn by sectarian violence since Seleka rebels seized power in March 2013. A band of mostly Christian militias, called the anti-Balaka, then took up arms against the Seleka.