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Mon 11 Nov 2008Army helps evacuate aid workers

SENIOR IRISH Army officers and French special forces serving in Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) evacuated a group of aid agency workers during a gun fight with armed militia at the weekend.

The airborne evacuation took place in Birao in the southeast of CAR, one of the more remote regions where the EUfor peace enforcement mission is deployed.