Gunmen killed a police officer and kidnapped five Chinese nationals working at a gold mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s conflict-torn east on Sunday, according to military sources.
A regional army spokesman, Major Dieudonne Kasereka, said that “at around 2 a.m., the Chinese group’s camp was attacked by armed bandits” in the village of Mukera in Fizi territory of South Kivu province..
The attack killed one police officer and injured another, according to Colonel David Epanga, the head of the armed forces in Fizi.
“There were 14 in total, five were taken away by…
