Explosions, shooting kill a few at M23 rally in Eastern Dr. Congo | News of the conflict
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The rebel commander Corneille Nanga says he is unharmed because the video shows dead, wounded people in Bakavu.
Explosions swinging the capital in the east Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) During the meeting for the M23 rebel group and their supporters attended by one of the best commanders of the armed group.
The first explosion in Bukavu on Thursday caused panic, sending participants who flee the area before the second explosion rang, according to the AFP news agency. Residents said the explosions were followed by a shooting.
People ran through the streets, and some bleed and wearing thick bodies, the video showed. Residents said they saw dead people, but there were no immediate information about the number of victims.
The meeting was first attended by the Commander of the M23 Corneille Nanga, the leader of the Congo Rijeka Alliance, since his forces had taken control of the second largest city in the region almost two weeks ago.
Nangaa told the phone to Reuters to the news agency that neither he nor the other higher rebel commanders were wounded in the attack and that he blamed President Drc Felix Tshiseeked without providing evidence. There was no direct comment on the government.
Bukava is one of two key cities in a turbulent region that has seized antigening in recent weeks M23 fightersto whom the experts of the United Nations said to be supported by Rwanda.
The armed group tries to show that he can return the order to the territory that captured from the DC army, he reopened Luke and school.
The M23 fighters broke through the Eastern DRC, seizing key cities and killing about 7,000 people. There were also reports on Sexual abuse of children and hiring a minor as a soldier.
Rebeling progress aroused the fear of a regional war that could withdraw the DRC neighbors, including Rwanda.
Progress is described as the most severe escalation in more than a decade of long-term conflict on Eastern Drc, which was rooted in the 1994 Rwanda genocide transition and the struggle for the control of the large mineral resources of the DRC.
Rwanda announced that she was defending herself from the threat of the Hutu militia, which is said to fight with the Congol army.
