160 BODIES FOUND IN BURUNDI

MORE than 160 bodies have been found in a suburb of Burundi’s capital where government troops a week earlier drove out rebels who seized control of it for more than 12 days, local officials said. Hutu extremist fighters of the National Liberation Front (FNL) on February 24 seized Kinama in the biggest rebel attack on the capital since 1995 and held parts of the suburbs for 12 days. The mainly Tutsi army eventually forced them out in fierce fighting. – AFP