Grenade Attack Kills 2 at Catholic Mass in Goma

A grenade attack during an outdoor Roman Catholic mass in the eastern Congolese town of Goma killed a small girl and a priest and wounded 15 people, a spokesman for the rebel authority that runs the town said.

“An individual who has not yet been identified threw a grenade into the crowd at a communion service,” Jean-Pierre Lola-Kisanga said.

Four people who had been among the congregation were taken for questioning, Lola-Kisanga said.

Goma was devastated by a volcanic eruption in January and is controlled by Rwandan-backed rebels who have been fighting the Kinshasa government since 1998.