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Former MSF employee killed in robbery near Bangui

By , based on Corbeau News Centrafrique

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A former employee of Médecins Sans Frontières, known as Sivas, was shot dead in a robbery near Ndangala, around 30 kilometres from Bangui. He was returning to the capital after paying his farm workers, Corbeau News Centrafrique reports.

Sivas, a former employee of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), was killed in a robbery near Ndangala, about 30 kilometres from Bangui, while returning from his farm. Corbeau News Centrafrique reports that the incident took place in the week before the article was published, without giving a precise date.

The victim had run the farm for more than ten years and employed several village residents. He had just paid the workers when one or more armed individuals intercepted him on a path. The attackers shot him with a 12-gauge hunting weapon, took the money he was carrying and fled. His body was found and taken to the Bangui morgue.

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