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BusinessLive reports that two tactical intelligence captains from the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), which is part of the Southern Africa Regional Force (Samidrc) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were killed in a mortar attack on their logistics base at Sake late Tuesday afternoon.
One of the captains was killed instantly, while the other died waiting for an ambulance from the DRC hospital in Goma, about 25km away. Twenty soldiers were wounded in the attack, four critically. The SA national contingent commander, Col Jaco Pietersen, was among those wounded when the M23 rebels fired on the base. The attack followed the same pattern as the first attack on the South Africans at the same base at Sake in February 2024, which left two soldiers dead. Pieterse underwent an operation on Tuesday night to remove shrapnel from his chest. One of the injured has lost an arm, while others were mostly also injured by shrapnel. Tuesday’s attack came after the force and DRC army were relentlessly firing on M23’s strongholds in the high hills in the area. Sake, which houses the logistics of the force without much protection, was then apparently struck in retaliation. The two fatalities bring the total number of deaths within the Samidrc in the DRC to about 12 since the force deployed to the DRC in December. SA has been hit the hardest of the three countries represented in the force. The others are Tanzania and Malawi.
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