FILE-In this Aug. 12, 2012 file photo, Park rangers patrol in the Virunga National Park near Rumangabo, some 60 kms (40 miles) north of Goma, eastern Congo.
Gunmen have killed at least six rangers Sunday Jan. 10, 2021, in the Virunga National Park, the latest attack in the part of eastern Congo that is home to some of the world's last mountain gorillas, officials said Sunday.
(AP Photo/Jerome Delay,file)KINSHASA โ Gunmen have killed at least six rangers in Virunga National Park, the latest attack in the part of eastern Congo that is home to some of the world's last mountain gorillas, officials said Sunday.
In April 2020, an ambush near the Virunga National Park killed 12 rangers and five civilians, and critically injured several others.
More than 200 rangers have been killed since Virunga became a national park in 1925, officials say.