At least five people were killed and about 50 wounded during a second day of violent anti-United Nations protests in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern city of Goma on Tuesday, a government spokesman said.
A Reuters reporter saw U.N. peacekeepers shoot two demonstrators dead as protesters threw rocks, vandalized and set fire to U.N. buildings.
"At least 5 dead, around 50 wounded ," government spokesman Patrick Muyaya said in a tweet, without saying who was responsible. Protesters were initially peaceful, but turned violent as some picked tear-gas grenades off the ground and threw them back at the MONUSCO warehouse.Local officials have called for calm, even as similar protests broke out around 200 km north of Goma in the city of Butembo on Tuesday.
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