AT LEAST six civilians were killed in an attack on a village in the north-east of the Central African Republic (CAR) on Saturday, the United Nations has confirmed.

Several more were wounded in what the UN peacekeeping mission described as “a large-scale attack” by rebel forces allied to the Return, Reclamation, Rehabilitation group, commonly known as 3R.

A conflict was ignited last December when President Faustin-Archange Touadera was re-elected in a widely boycotted poll.