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DRCongo. UN confirms 11 dead in rebel attack on displaced persons camp
At least 11 people have been killed and 30 wounded in an attack on two camps for displaced people in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the UN said on Wednesday.
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Community leaders had previously attributed the attack to the rebel group March 23 Movement (M23), and only referred to one displaced persons camp.
"We can confirm the attack on the Lac Vert and Mugunga IDP camps, which left eleven dead and at least thirty injured," Rachel Criswell, representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Kinshasa, told EFE.
The bombs hit two parts of Lac Vert and one part of Mugunga, on the outskirts of Goma, Criswell explained.
The UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC (Monusco), which condemned the attack in a statement, said that at least six children were killed.
According to Dedesi Mitima, a community leader in Lac Vert, nine people were killed in the bombing, while another two were fatally shot by rebels after "going out into the street to demonstrate".
"There is enormous tension that I have never seen here," Mitima told the local newspaper 7sur7, after fighting between the DRCongo army and the M23 resumed in recent hours, after weeks of calm.
Although the M23, which Kinshasa alleges receives support from neighbouring Rwanda, has not claimed responsibility for the attack and the UN has not confirmed the perpetrators, local sources said that the bombs came from the front line near the city of Sake, close to Goma, the capital of the province of North Kivu.
The attack paralysed the neighbourhoods of Lac Vert and Mugunga, where people forced to abandon their homes due to the conflict between government forces and rebels live.
In a statement, the special representative of the UN Secretary-General in the DRCongo and director of Monusco, Bintou Keita, denounced this "escalation of indiscriminate violence against civilians in North Kivu".
Bintou Keita also urged the Democratic Republic of the Congo authorities to bring to justice those responsible for the bombings, which constitute "a flagrant violation of human rights and international law and may constitute a war crime".
The M23 resumed fighting on 1 October, after months of relative calm, and this week took control of the mining town of Rubaya, from where coltan, a strategic mineral for the electronics industry, is extracted.
The DRCongo authorities accuse Rwanda of wanting to take control of the wealth of the east of this country that borders Angola, which is disputed by Kigali.
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