{Three men kidnapped in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo work for a specialised private firm subcontracted by the UN anti-mine service, the UN mission in the country said Friday.}<\/p>\n
“These are not UN personnel, they are private agents employed by a private company hired by (the UN Mine Action Service) UNMAS,” Charles Bambara, information director at the mission in the Congo (MONUSCO) told AFP.<\/p>\n
Nobody has claimed responsibility for Thursday’s abduction of the three men at Kibumba in North Kivu province, where a Congolese army officer said his troops had found an abandoned MONUSCO car with markings of the local UN demining team, known as UN-MAG.<\/p>\n
“The motor was running and the car was empty. Apparently those inside were kidnapped,” added the officer, who asked not to be named.<\/p>\n
A UN official on Thursday told AFP that “three agents of MONUSCO … were kidnapped at Kibumba,” 30 miles (19 miles) north of Goma, the provincial capital. The men were identified as two Congolese and one foreigner.<\/p>\n
UN-MAG is responsible for disarming mines and defusing other unexploded weaponry in North Kivu, which has been wracked by conflict for more than 20 years and is a base for rebels and other armed groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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