Friday, August 11, 2000
Clashes with militia in East Timor leave one UN peacekeeper dead,
three wounded
10 August -- Clashes between United Nations peacekeepers and
militia have left one Nepalese soldier dead and three others injured, with
a Timorese civilian also wounded in the fighting, a UN spokesman announced
today.
The incident, which occurred at 5:45 p.m. local time, involved a peacekeeping patrol that encountered a group of militia 14 kilometres north-east of Suai. After an exchange of fire, four of the Nepalese UN peacekeeping soldiers were wounded along with the civilian bystander.
While two of the Nepalese soldiers and the Timorese civilian were transported by land to the Military Hospital of the UN Transitional Administration for East Timor in Suai, the two other soldiers, who had sustained more serious injuries, were flown to the UN Military Hospital in Dili. One later died from his injuries.
In an unrelated incident yesterday, an Australian peacekeeper was fatally wounded when one of the weapons in the armoured car he was travelling in discharged accidentally.
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