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Two people have been killed and several injured after UN peacekeepers returning from leave in Uganda opened fire to force their way through a border into eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Bintou Keita, the head of the UN peacekeeping mission, has described the troops’ actions as unspeakable and irresponsible and that arrests had been made and an investigation opened.
A video shared on social media shows troops in a UN convoy trying to cross the border from Uganda into eastern DR Congo – and an arguments and then loud bursts of gunfire from the convoy are heard as people scatter in all directions. END