location: Tshimbulu
notes: 12 March: 2 UN employees, an American and a Swede-Chilean, and 4 DR-Congo nationals were abducted by unidentified assailants on Tshimbulu Rd near a bridge over the Moyo River in Kasai-Central. The UN officials were in region investigating violence and abuses. The two UN employees were found dead on March 28, 2017, and the 4 Congolese people who accompanied were found dead on May 7, 2018. Later investigations implicated military officers in the killings.
target_text: location: Tshimbulu, fatalities: 6