<p>India is in touch with the central African nation's government over the safety of the pilot, said official sources. <br /><br />Congolese rebels took the Indian, who was working as a co-pilot, hostage when they attacked an aircraft on a remote airstrip in a tin mining area of Walikale in the country’s North Kivu province. <br /><br />Congolese army General Baigwa Dieudonne Amuli has blamed Rwandan Hutu FDLR rebels for the attack over the weekend. <br /><br />The plane was looted before it returned to Goma, the capital of the North Kivu, a resource-rich violence-ridden province of the nation. <br /><br />According to Goma Express, whose aircraft was attacked, a Russian colleague of the Indian escaped and flew the plane back to Goma, with a wounded Congolese national on board.<br />Media reports quoted Pedro Kadogi, director of Goma Express, saying food supplies, rather than money, had been on the plane.</p>
<p>India is in touch with the central African nation's government over the safety of the pilot, said official sources. <br /><br />Congolese rebels took the Indian, who was working as a co-pilot, hostage when they attacked an aircraft on a remote airstrip in a tin mining area of Walikale in the country’s North Kivu province. <br /><br />Congolese army General Baigwa Dieudonne Amuli has blamed Rwandan Hutu FDLR rebels for the attack over the weekend. <br /><br />The plane was looted before it returned to Goma, the capital of the North Kivu, a resource-rich violence-ridden province of the nation. <br /><br />According to Goma Express, whose aircraft was attacked, a Russian colleague of the Indian escaped and flew the plane back to Goma, with a wounded Congolese national on board.<br />Media reports quoted Pedro Kadogi, director of Goma Express, saying food supplies, rather than money, had been on the plane.</p>