Shot Senegalese peacekeeper dies

A Senegalese peacekeeper died after succumbing to wounds suffered in an attack last week in Sudan’s war-wracked Darfur region.

Unidentified gunmen ambushed a peacekeeping convoy carrying the navy captain in El-Fasher, opening fire and carjacking a vehicle, Senegal military spokesman Colonel Ousmane Sar said.

The captain was shot in the thigh and transferred to a medical facility in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, but he died of his wounds.