Lagos – A Nigerian soldier shot and killed a humanitarian worker, another soldier and wounded a UN pilot in the northeast of the country where security forces are fighting a grinding jihadist conflict, the UN and the army said.
On Thursday at a military base in the northeast, the soldier shot and killed a staff member of an NGO providing humanitarian aid in the region, said military spokesman Samson Nantip Zhakom.
The UN on Friday said the “apparently rogue soldier” had killed a female aid worker employed by French organisation Medecins du Monde in Damboa in Borno State, but did not give details on the victim’s nationality.
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“Same soldier also killed another soldier and injured the co-pilot of one of the UN helicopters, the military spokesman said. “Own troops on the ground immediately neutralized the errant personnel.”
Neither the military nor the UN gave a reason for the shooting, but the army said it was investigating.
The Nigerian armed forces are battling the Islamic State West Africa Province and Boko Haram jihadist groups in a conflict that has killed 40,000 people since 2009 and displaced two million more.
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Source: AFP
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