Clashes Leave at Least 75 Dead
At least 75 people were killed in fighting last week in northeastern Congo, the United Nations said. Many were women and children who were hacked to death.
The clashes involving tribal militias, a rebel group and the Ugandan army flared in a local turf war within a four-year conflict that has left an estimated 2 million people dead. A pit containing 38 hacked-up bodies--including 13 women and four children--was found Friday near the town of Bunia, U.N. officials said. Thirty-seven bodies were discovered near the town after fighting Thursday.
“There are bound to be more dead,” a spokesman for the U.N. observer mission said.
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