Three members of UN mission kidnapped in eastern DR Congo

Three members of the United Nation's peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo were kidnapped today in the eastern North Kivu province, a UN source said.

"Three members of MONUSCO (the 20,000-strong UN peacekeeping force)... Have been kidnapped in Kibumba", some 30 kilometres (20 miles) from the provincial capital Goma, the source told AFP. A Congolese army officer said a UN vehicle had been recovered near the presumed site of their abduction.