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City Press reports that a contingent of South African soldiers was led into a bloody ambush by M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) last week, barely a week after their arrival in the country.
During the clash, one senior South African medical orderly was killed and 22 were injured, with 13 admitted to the hospital in Goma. One of the soldiers had to have a foot amputated. The orderly, whose name has not yet been disclosed, was reportedly driving an Mfezi mine-resistant ambulance to the ground combat location with M23 when the rebels fired a mortar into it through its open roof hatch, causing it to explode inside. Some of the 13 South African soldiers in the SADC force in the DRC (SAMIDRC) who are being treated in the hospital in Goma are from the 2 SA Infantry Battalion in Zeerust, North West. The death brings the number of SAMIDRC deaths since December to approximately 10. The SANDF union said it was high time that the army became transparent about exactly what was happening in the DRC. The army has yet to provide a clear outline of the mission to the DRC and its mandate there. It has also not yet justified sending a force of nearly 3,000 soldiers to Goma without any cargo planes or helicopters.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Erika Gibson at City Press
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