Chad: UN-Trained Policeman Killed in East

Dakar — Armed men shot dead a Chadian policeman on the night of 13 May when they attacked the post of national police specially trained to protect refugees, displaced persons and humanitarian staff in eastern Chad.

The station of the Chadian Integrated Security Detachment (DIS) in the town of Goz Amer was attacked by six men in civilian clothes, according to a 14 statement by the UN mission in Chad, MINURCAT. "The six men arrived on foot and burst into the DIS station where they opened fire on the officers present," MINURCAT said.

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