WASHINGTON - Seven United Nations peacekeepers were killed during an operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Wednesday along with an unknown number of Congolese military forces during an operation in North Kivu province, where international health workers are battling an Ebola epidemic, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters on Thursday. READ MORE: Congo rebels kill 15, abduct a dozen children in attack at centre of Ebola outbreak

“Our peacekeeping colleagues tell us that six peacekeepers from Malawi and one from Tanzania who are part of the UN peacekeeping operation in the DRC … were killed yesterday, in Beni territory,” the agency quoted U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric as telling reporters in New York.
The United Nations announce that seven MONUSCO peacekeepers were killed in clashes with militia yesterday in Beni, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.