Certainly eleven dead due to explosions at the meeting of M23 leader in Congo

Due to explosions and shelling in Bukavu in Eastern Congo, at least 11 people were killed on Friday and 65 people were injured. International press agencies write that. The explosions took place during a meeting of the M23 rebel group, which took the city two weeks ago.

The attack began at the end of the speech of rebel leader Corneille Nangaa. A crowd then tried to flee; Some bloody, others with dead bodies in their arms. « There was a shot in all directions. We don't know what happened, « a resident told Reuters news agency.

According to Nangaa, the president of Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, was behind the attack. Tshisekedi, however, called the explosions a « horrible terrorist act » that he « very much » condemns. He gave an « foreign army that is illegally present on Congolese soil » the attack of the attack.

Bukavu became mid -February taken By M23 supported by Rwanda. A few weeks earlier, the group took the Eastern Congolese city of Goma. According to the UN, more than three thousand people were killed. Bukavu is located south of Goma and is the capital of the province of South Kivu. The area has more than a million inhabitants with surrounding villages.

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