{"id":189304,"date":"2012-04-21T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/unamid-patrol-attacked-in-west-darfur\/"},"modified":"2012-04-21T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T23:51:00","slug":"unamid-patrol-attacked-in-west-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/unamid-patrol-attacked-in-west-darfur","title":{"rendered":"UNAMID Patrol attacked in West Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: x-small\">&nbsp;UNAMID formed police unit patrol (FPU) from Togo was attacked by unidentified gunmen on 20 April just before noon while on a routine patrol. The &nbsp;team of 32 officers had been patrolling in the Sisi internally displaced persons camp and were returning to their base camp &nbsp;in Mourne, West Darfur, about 70 kilometres southeast of El Geneina, when men armed with AK-47 rifles attacked them, injuring two FPU members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: x-small\">The patrol team withdrew towards the IDP camp while a UNAMID rescue unit also comprised of Togolese FPU members was called to assist. After the arrival of the rescue team at around 1300, the combined units started to move back to the base at Mourne and were ambushed again by gunmen who shot and injured two additional FPU officers. &nbsp;The FPU team returned fire, but the perpetrators fled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: x-small\">The teams then made their way back to the Mourne base, and the four wounded officers were medevaced by helicopter to the UNAMID Nigerian level 2 Hospital in EL Geneina, where they are in stable condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: x-small\">&nbsp;UNAMID formed police unit patrol (FPU) from Togo was attacked by unidentified gunmen on 20 April just before noon while on a routine patrol. The &nbsp;team of 32 officers had been patrolling in the Sisi internally displaced persons camp and were returning to their base camp &nbsp;in Mourne, West Darfur, about 70 kilometres southeast of El Geneina, when men armed with AK-47 rifles attacked them, injuring two FPU members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: x-small\">The patrol team withdrew towards the IDP camp while a UNAMID rescue unit also comprised of Togolese FPU members was called to assist. After the arrival of the rescue team at around 1300, the combined units started to move back to the base at Mourne and were ambushed again by gunmen who shot and injured two additional FPU officers. &nbsp;The FPU team returned fire, but the perpetrators fled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; FONT-SIZE: x-small\">The teams then made their way back to the Mourne base, and the four wounded officers were medevaced by helicopter to the UNAMID Nigerian level 2 Hospital in EL Geneina, where they are in stable condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sws_supernormalaction\"><button on=\"tap:superwebshare-lightbox\" class=\"superwebshare_normal_button1 superwebshare-button-large superwebshare-button-square superwebshare_prompt superwebshare_button_svg\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color: #d52631;\" ><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"superwebshare-svg\"  fill=\"currentColor\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 1000\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"0\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M789.86,323.67c91.79,0,164.25-72.46,164.25-164.25S881.64,0,789.86,0S625.6,72.46,625.6,164.25c0,4.83,0,14.49,0,24.15L306.76,371.98c-24.15-24.15-57.97-33.82-96.62-33.82c-91.79,0-164.25,72.46-164.25,164.25s72.46,164.25,164.25,164.25c38.65,0,72.46-14.49,96.62-33.82L625.6,821.26c0,9.66,0,14.49,0,19.32c0,86.96,72.46,159.42,159.42,159.42s159.42-72.46,159.42-159.42s-67.63-159.42-154.59-159.42c-33.82,0-67.63,9.66-96.62,33.82L374.4,526.57c0-9.66,0-19.32,0-24.15s0-14.49,0-24.15l318.84-188.41C717.39,314.01,751.21,323.67,789.86,323.67z\" \/><\/svg><span>Share article<\/span><\/button><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0UNAMID formed police unit patrol (FPU) from Togo was attacked by unidentified gunmen on 20 April just before noon while on a routine patrol. The \u00a0team of 32 officers had been patrolling in the Sisi internally displaced persons camp and were returning to their base camp \u00a0in Mourne, West Darfur, about 70 kilometres southeast of El Geneina, when men armed with AK-47 rifles attacked them, injuring two FPU members. The patrol team withdrew towards the IDP camp while a UNAMID rescue unit also comprised of Togolese FPU members was called to assist. After the arrival of the rescue team at around 1300, the combined units started to move back to the base at Mourne and were ambushed again by gunmen who shot and injured two additional FPU officers. \u00a0The FPU team returned fire, but the perpetrators fled. The teams then made their way back to the Mourne base, and the four wounded officers were medevaced by helicopter to the UNAMID Nigerian level 2 Hospital in EL Geneina, where they are in stable condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UNAMID Patrol attacked in West Darfur - Dabanga Radio TV Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/unamid-patrol-attacked-in-west-darfur\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UNAMID Patrol attacked in West Darfur - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0UNAMID formed police unit patrol (FPU) from Togo was attacked by unidentified gunmen on 20 April just before noon while on a routine patrol. 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