Many deaths when attacking refugees

bangui - In an attack by Muslim rebels in a refugee camp in the Central African Republic (CAR) at least 42 people were killed. In the camp, located near a Catholic mission in the city of Alindao, about 20,000 refugees resided. According to a United Nations spokesman, thousands of them fled when the rebels set the camp on fire.

The news about the attack, which took place on Thursday, only came out on Saturday. In the CAR broke out in 2013 between Christian and Muslim militias. Thousands of people died in the violence and a fifth of the 4.5 million inhabitants of the country fled. The violence in the CAR has flared up again in recent days. On Friday, a Tanzanian soldier from the UN peacekeeping force died when a militia attacked a refugee camp in the southwest of the country.