{"id":43018,"date":"2022-03-30T06:18:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T21:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/29\/eight-un-peacekeepers-killed-in-helicopter-crash-in-drc"},"modified":"2022-03-30T06:18:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T21:18:20","slug":"eight-un-peacekeepers-killed-in-helicopter-crash-in-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43018","title":{"rendered":"Eight UN peacekeepers killed in helicopter crash in DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six Pakistanis, a Russian and a Serb victims of fatal reconnaissance mission, officials say<\/p>\n<p>Eight UN peacekeepers \u2013 six Pakistanis, a Russian and a Serb \u2013 were killed on Tuesday when a Puma helicopter crashed in the troubled eastern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/congo\">Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a> (DRC), UN and Pakistani officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile undertaking a reconnaissance mission in Congo, 1 Puma Helicopter crashed. Exact cause of crash is yet to be ascertained,\u201d the Pakistani military\u2019s media wing said. It added that six Pakistani troops were among those killed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/29\/eight-un-peacekeepers-killed-in-helicopter-crash-in-drc\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six Pakistanis, a Russian and a Serb victims of fatal reconnaissance mission, officials sayEight UN peacekeepers \u2013 six Pakistanis, a Russian and a Serb \u2013 were killed on Tuesday when a Puma helicopter crashed in the troubled eastern Democratic Republic &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,1052,60,61,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-democratic-republic-of-the-congo","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-united-nations"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43019,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43018\/revisions\/43019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}