/ 5 February 2001

ELEVEN KILLED IN DRC AMBUSH

ELEVEN people were killed and eight others seriously wounded in an ambush in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), rebel-controlled radio Bukavu and hospital sources reported. The ambush occurred on Friday on a road in the south Kivu region linking Bukavu and Kisangani. The report said the attack was carried out by Mai-Mai militiamen opposed to the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), one of the main rebel groups fighting the Kinshasa government.