31 Killed in Attacks at Rwanda-Zaire Border

Raiders with assault rifles and grenades killed 31 people at a Rwandan refugee camp and on a Zairian island in Lake Kivu, a U.N. agency said Wednesday.

Fifty-one people were wounded in the attacks, 10 seriously. Many were women and children housed in the camp on the western shore of the lake, which separates Rwanda and Zaire.

U.N. officials said the first assault was on the Lake Kivu island of Iwinja, where the assailants killed two people and wounded five, apparently all Zairians. They then went onto the western shore, surrounded a refugee camp called Birava and opened fire with rifles and grenades, killing 29 refugees.