Bloomberg News
30 October 2008
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a2x7BuNOs4IM
KHARTOUM - A South African soldier serving with the United Nations-led peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region was killed yesterday, bringing the death toll among the force's members to 11 since July, the UN said.
Gunmen yesterday attacked peacekeepers in the Kutum area of northern Darfur, Noureddine Mezni, spokesman of the UN-African Union mission, known as Unamid, said by phone from El-Fasher. One male soldier died of his injuries, while a female South African trooper was wounded, he said.
``With this South African soldier, we have now lost 11 peacekeepers since the beginning of the mission,'' Mezni said.
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