Military: Gunmen kill Pakistani UN peacekeeper in east Congo

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s military says a Pakistani soldier serving as a U.N. peacekeeper in the Democratic Republic of Congo was killed in a militant attack in the country’s volatile east. A group of six militants reached the United Nations’ permanent operation base in the district of Minembwe on Friday, ostensibly to surrender their weapons as part of a U.N. initiative. But the military says the group’s leader started firing indiscriminately. A Pakistani soldier serving as a guard at the weapons surrender point was shot in the head. Pakistani peacekeepers responded to the fire immediately, the military said, without offering details. The wounded soldier was rushed to a Pakistani army medical unit but later died.