Four UN peacekeepers killed by mine in Abyei

Source:

Agence France-Presse

Country:

Sudan (the)

UNITED NATIONS - A landmine on Tuesday killed four Ethiopian UN peacekeepers and badly wounded seven others on patrol in the disputed Sudanese territory of Abyei, the UN said.
Most of the 4,200 Ethiopian troops in Abyei have been in the territory on the border between north and South Sudan for less than a week.
The Khartoum government, whose forces had occupied the village where the explosion occurred, has signed the Ottawa treaty banning [...]