UN: Moroccan peacekeeper killed in Central African Republic

DAKAR, Senegal – The United Nations says a peacekeeper from Morocco has been killed in Central African Republic.

A statement Monday morning says the peacekeeper was killed Sunday in the southeastern town of Bangassou by suspected anti-Balaka militias.

The statement says three other peacekeepers were injured.

Hundreds of people have been killed in Central African Republic and roughly 100,000 displaced in the past two months. Sectarian violence that began in 2013 has been moving into the impoverished country’s central and southeastern regions, prompting warnings of a national conflict roaring back to life.

In Bangassou alone, more than 150 people have died in fighting between militias and U.N. peacekeeping forces.