A peacekeeper with the UN mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) was killed and three others injured today in an ambush, authorities said. <br/><br/>The soldier, who was Eqytian, died in an attack carried out by "armed elements affiliated with the anti-Balaka movement," the UN peacekeeping mission MINUSCA said.<br/>'<br/>Anti-Balaka were nominally Christian militias organised in response to the bloody sectarian violence unleashed by Muslim-majority Seleka rebels in 2013.<br/>'<br/>Mired in poverty but rich in minerals, CAR has been battered by a three-year conflict between the rival militias that began after then-president Francois Bozize was overthrown. <br/><br/>The soldier's death raises to 13 the number of peacekeepers killed in attacks in CAR this year.<br/>