The foundation said the other occupants of the vehicle, including a French Carmelite brother and a catechist, suffered only minor injuries.
The charity foundation reported about Pozzi: “His state of health, with multiple fractures, required a great deal of care, and the intervention of the military of the U.N. force present in the region was requested, which transported the missionary by helicopter to the capital of the Central African Republic, Bangui, located about 400 kilometers [250 miles] away.”
Pozzi reportedly underwent a delicate three-hour surgical procedure in which doctors tried to save his injured left foot.
With other surgeries unsuccessful, the priest was transported to the U.N. hospital in Entebbe, Uganda, where he underwent another operation on Feb. 13.
At the hospital in Uganda, unfortunately, the doctors “had to amputate his left foot,” ACN reported, noting that the accident occurred just over 12 miles from Bozoum, in the Diocese of Bouar, where the oldest Carmelite mission in CAR is located.
Pozzi reportedly arrived in CAR as a missionary in 1980. At the time he was still a layman and worked as a land surveyor and bricklayer for eight years in the Carmelite missions in the African country. He later returned to Italy to be ordained a priest and returned to CAR in 1995.
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