Flight Sergeant Vusumuzi Joseph Mabena's body has arrived home for his family to prepare their final farewells for the South African peacekeeper, who was killed when his helicopter came under fire in the DRC.
The body of a South African soldier who was killed by sniper fire over the Democratic Republic of the Congo arrived home on Sunday.
He was part of a mission to protect civilians caught up in skirmishes in a campaign against government forces in the DRC. The flight engineer was on a South African Air Force Oryx helicopter, sitting behind the pilot in command, Major Omolemo Matlapeng, who was apparently hit in the shoulder by the same sniper's bullet. The incident happened in Kiwanja, some 70km northeast of Goma in the North Kivu province.Sniper's bullet killed SA Air Force engineer, wounded pilot: Inside helicopter attack over Congo
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