Three people were killed in the capital of the Central African Republic yesterday in violence coming just days after a deadly church attack in which 27 people were kidnapped.
The victims were thought to have been killed after peacekeepers opened fire on thousands of anti-government protesters.
The deeply impoverished, majority Christian country has been wracked by relentless tit-for-tat attacks between Christian vigilante groups and the mainly Muslim ex-Seleka rebels who seized control in a coup last year, but were forced from power in January.
Burundian troops belonging to the African Union´s MISCA peacekeeping force fired on “armed demonstrators” they said tried to “force their way into their base”, Colonel Bengone Otsaga, head of MISCA´s police force, told the media. Two were shot dead and several others injured, some seriously, in the clashes near the centre of the capital Bangui, the Red Cross said.
