SA medic was killed inside ambulance in DRC ambush, SANDF says
A SAMI DRC Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo) armoured convoy drives through Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Sergeant Mbulelo David Ngubane, a 39-year-old medic, was in a well-marked ambulance when he was shot and killed by M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The South African Defence Force on Thursday released Ngubane's name and provided details of the ambush in which he died. "This unfortunate incident occurred even though the Geneva Convention on the Law of Armed Conflict clearly stipulates categories of protected persons and objects like medical personnel, medical transport in particular, and other establishment of this nature during an armed conflict," said the SANDF in a statement.South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future.
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