BANGUI, Central African Republic \u2014 A Swiss geologist and a local miner were killed on Thursday in the Central African Republic, north of the capital, Bangui, according to a statement from the local public prosecutor’s office on Monday. <\/p>\n
Luca Maggini and the miner were kidnapped by unidentified men in the evening and later killed, according to Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Pounou, a geologist who was working alongside Maggini when he was kidnapped.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was as he was leaving that he fell into the hands of the attackers,\u201d said Pounou.<\/p>\n
The attack occurred near the village of Gbango-Carriere, 55 kilometers (34 miles) north of Bangui, and also resulted in the kidnapping of a staff sergeant in the Central African Army, according to the public prosecutor’s statement.<\/p>\n
Maggini worked with ADMOG Gold, an Emirati company with contracts in the African country, according to Pounou.<\/p>\n
The Central African Republic has faced years of instability, and it is one of the countries where Wagner, a Russian mercenary group, was first active in Africa.<\/p>\n
Conflict began in the country in 2013 after mostly Muslim rebels seized power and forced then President Fran\u00e7ois Boziz\u00e9 to quit. The conflict was de-escalated by a 2019 peace deal between the government and 14 armed groups, but six of the groups later withdrew from the agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BANGUI, Central African Republic \u2014 A Swiss geologist and a local miner were killed on Thursday in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[2814,1655,41,17,2815],"class_list":["post-111241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-ap-a-wire","tag-crime","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland","tag-wires-bot"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117032292517207695","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}