{A girl was killed, 32 Indian peacekeepers and two civilians were wounded Tuesday in Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after an explosion.}<\/p>\n
The explosion occurred shortly before 6:30 local time (4:30 GMT), witnesses said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an explosive device of unclear origin,\u201d Charles-Antoine Bambara, spokesman for the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) told AFP in the evening.<\/p>\n
According to a source close to MONUSCO who requested anonymity, the \u201cattack deliberately targeted the peacekeepers because they were unarmed\u201d and \u201cthe explosive device hidden in a can was remotely controlled.\u201d<\/p>\n
Santas Acenti Foruguta, a guard at the Catholic cathedral under construction nearby said they fled the sound of the explosion while standing behind the fence of the yard.<\/p>\n
Mr. Bambara said investigation has been opened to determine the circumstances of the explosion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
{A girl was killed, 32 Indian peacekeepers and two civilians were wounded Tuesday in Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after an explosion.} The explosion occurred shortly before 6:30 local time (4:30 GMT), witnesses said. \u201cIt was an explosive device of unclear origin,\u201d Charles-Antoine Bambara, spokesman for the UN Mission in the DRC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2539],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-30148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-africa-news"],"bylines":[{"id":2539,"name":"Africa News","slug":"africa-news","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2539,"name":"Africa News","slug":"africa-news","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30148"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=30148"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=30148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}