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Fri 12 Dec 2009Two peacekeepers shot dead in Darfur
Two Rwandan peacekeepers were shot dead and three wounded in an ambush by unidentified gunmen near a market in Sudan's Darfur region today, the peacekeeping force said.
The attack was a reminder of the vulnerability of the under-equipped joint UN-African Union UNAMID mission in Darfur and brought the number of its personnel killed by hostile action in two years to 19.
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