MOSCOW, May 20 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian soldier serving under a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sudan has been wounded, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday following a fire and explosion at an arms dump.
The soldier, a senior warrant officer, was wounded when an unexploded shell landed in the tent he was in. He was taken to a UN hospital, where he received treatment, the defense ministry said.
The fire broke out at an arms dump near the southern Sudanese town of Juba used by one of the warring sides in the long-running conflict in the country.
Russia has sent two group contingents of peacekeepers to the troubled North African state to join a UN mission that includes military observers and civilian police.
