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Uruguayan blue helmets report calm in the DRC

Montevideo, Jan 29 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations blue helmets contingent from Uruguay deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) today reported calm after suffering casualties in recent days. The situation of the Uruguayan soldiers stationed in the city of Goma, in the east of the DRC indicates that no fighting has been recorded in the last 24 hours in the area of the city's airport and the base of the Uruguay IV Battalion.

In reference to the wounded personnel, they are well, receiving treatment according to each of the injuries received’, reported the National Army.

It is a report that takes into account several injured Uruguayan soldiers, after the death of a Uruguayan soldier last Saturday.

Regarding the supply of food to the military base, it states that ‘there is enough food and water for the next few days and reserves are in the process of being replenished’.

The rest of the troops of the national contingent are in perfect health conditions’, concludes the latest communiqué.

The Uruguayan soldiers have been part of the United Nations Peace Mission in Congo since 2001.

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