A security guard walks past the United Nations logo at the U.N. Headquarters in New York, August 31, 2013. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
BANGUI (Reuters) - At least one soldier with the U.N. peackeeping mission in Central African Republic was killed on Sunday during clashes with armed assailants in a northern neighbourhood of the capital Bangui, a spokesman for the mission said.
Residents said heavy machinegun fire was heard around 3 a.m. (0400 BST) and it continued for several hours in the mostly Muslim district of PK5, where some inhabitants had set up barricades and were burning tyres.
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