{"id":13691,"date":"2014-04-06T06:16:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T06:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/chad-denies-car-shooting-claims\/"},"modified":"2014-04-06T06:16:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T06:16:14","slug":"chad-denies-car-shooting-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/chad-denies-car-shooting-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Chad Denies CAR Shooting Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Chad has rejected UN accusations that its troops killed 30 people and injured many more in an unprovoked attack in a market in the Central African Republic.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Chad’s government expressed its indignation and said the allegation was “defamatory”.<\/p>\n

It came as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made a surprise visit to CAR in a show of support for efforts to end the sectarian conflict there.<\/p>\n

Thousands of African and French troops are trying to restore order.<\/p>\n

Chad has said it will pull its peacekeepers out of CAR in protest at the UN’s claims.<\/p>\n

On Friday the UN said an investigation had found Chadian troops “opened fire on the population without any provocation” inside a busy market in Bangui on 29 March.<\/p>\n

Thirty people were killed and another 300 people were injured in the shooting, it said.}}<\/p>\n

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