DRC: Civilian Casualties From M23 Shelling in North Kivu | News [Video]

On Wednesday, Radio Okapi reported that at least one death and four injuries were caused by shelling by March 23 Movement (M23) rebels in Sake, North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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Several positions of the Armed Forces of the DRC and their collaborators of the stabilization missions of the United Nations (Monusco) and of the Southern African Development Community (Samidrc) were targeted by shells launched the day before from the hills occupied by the M23 in Mubambiro, Masisi territory.

Local sources reported to Radio Okapi the fall of a bomb near Kasengesi, near the district of Lac-vert, west of the city of Goma, as well as civilian victims of the attacks.

The situation remains confused in this area of fighting, which is concentrated in the hills of Kiuli and Vunano, north of Shasha, in the cluster of Mufuni Shanga, west of Sake.