Injured TPDF soldier dies from attack wounds

By Edward Qorro, The Citizen Reporter

Posted  Saturday, September 21   2013 at  09:15

In Summary

Private Barnabas Munga died in Pretoria on Wednesday where he was being treated for injuries he sustained from an explosive device that was thrown at them in Goma, in the DRC.

One of the five officers of the Tanzania People’s Defence Forces injured in an attack in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has died in South Africa while undergoing treatment.

Private Barnabas Munga died in Pretoria on Wednesday where he was being treated for injuries he sustained from an explosive device that was thrown at them in Goma, in the DRC.

On August 28, Munga and four others were injured while he and other soldiers were at their base when a grenade was thrown at them by unknown assailants, instantly killing Major Khatib Mshindo. According to a statement by TPDF, Private Munga was part of the UN Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the DRC (Monusco). The number of Tanzanian soldiers killed while on duty has so far reached nine.

In July this year, seven soldiers died in an ambush incident in Darfur, Sudan.

The fallen soldiers were part of the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur. (Edward Qorro)

Meanwhile, the force has moved to deny rumours that have now gone viral on social networks and mobile phones that TPDF has started recruiting professionals.

“In principle such vacancies are only placed on newspapers when we are on a process of recruiting,” read part of the statement.

SOURCE: THE CITIZEN