Thirteen civilians were killed Wednesday in the Central African Republic, 300 kilometers north of the capital Bangui, the UN said in a statement on Thursday (July 22), which did not specify the circumstances of the attack or the identity of the attackers.
A United Nations mission patrol in the Central African Republic (Minusca)
"confirmed the discovery of 13 lifeless bodies in Bongboto"
, 300 kilometers north of Bangui, according to the statement.
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"The dead are all civilians,"
Lieutenant-Colonel Abdoulaziz Fall, spokesperson for Minusca, told AFP. The Central African Republic, the second poorest country in the world according to the UN, has been ravaged since 2013 by a civil war which has nevertheless declined considerably in intensity since 2018.