At least one soldier with the U.N. peackeeping mission in Central African Republic was killed on Sunday during clashes with armed assailants in a northern neighbourhood of the capital Bangui, a spokesman for the mission said, according to Reuters. Residents said heavy machinegun fire was heard around 3 a.m. (0200 GMT) and it continued for several hours in district PK5, where some inhabitants had set up barricades and were burning tyres. "The mission launched an operation to arrest a person wanted by the judicial services for various crimes. Our forces came under heavy fire. One MINUSCA peacekeeper was killed and several others where wounded," the spokesman said by telephone from Bangui.
