AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE,
One person was killed and two injured when a drone from the European Union force in the Democratic Republic of Congo crashed in the capital Kinshasa, witnesses and officials have told AFP.
“According to our information, a woman was killed and two children injured,” said a spokesman for the force, EUFOR, on Tuesday adding that the reasons for the crash — the second in less than three months — were still unknown.
The drone, a remote-controlled, unmanned Belgian aircraft equipped with video cameras, came down near the capital's main stadium, just over a kilometre (0.6 miles) from the airbase where EUFOR is headquartered.
A drone from the EU force was shot down over the capital by small-calibre gunfire on July 28, injuring eight people.
EUFOR was deployed in July to provide security for presidential and legislative elections in the DRC, reinforcing the larger United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country, MONUC.
The EU force is made up of about 2,300 soldiers drawn from 20 member states plus Turkey, with 1,100 based in Kinshasa and 1,200 backing up in Gabon.
