Hundreds Reported Slain in City of Uvira
From Times Wire Reports
Hundreds of people were killed in fighting between Banyamulenge Tutsi rebels and Zairian troops in the eastern Zairian city of Uvira, refugees reported. As many as 1,500 ethnic Hutus, rivals of the Tutsis, crossed the border from Zaire into Burundi and provided the first eyewitness accounts of fighting in Uvira. They said rebels seized the city Friday, and that Uvira had been thoroughly looted and now lacked food, medicine and water.
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