“According to the preliminary version, they were stopped and killed by militants from the illegal armed group 3R,” RIA Novosti quotes Bikantov.
He recalled that 3R, in coalition with other gangs, attacked Bangui in December 2020.
According to him, in 2021, the CAR army pushed the militants out of the country's borders.
On July 31, 2018, three Russian citizens died in the Central African Republic - journalist Orkhan Dzhemal, director Alexander Rastorguev and cameraman Kirill Radchenko.
According to the UN, their bodies were found next to an abandoned car on a road north of Sibu in Kemo Prefecture.
According to the organization, the car was shot at.