KINSHASA (Reuters) - Militiamen killed at least eight United Nations peacekeepers in an attack on a patrol in eastern Congo on Friday, U.N. sources in the country said. "There are at least eight dead and some still missing," one U.N. source told Reuters. A second U.N. source confirmed the death toll.

Kemal Saiki, a spokesman for the U.N. mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, said the attack took place on Friday morning in the mineral-rich Ituri district, where the U.N. has deployed 4,800 peacekeepers.

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