Death toll from strikes on eastern DRC displaced-people camps rises to 18
The official count of people killed in Friday's attack on a camp for displaced people in the eastern DRC has risen to 18.Eighteen people were killed and 32 wounded on Friday when at least five rockets fell on camps sheltering displaced people around the eastern Congolese city of Goma, the UN humanitarian agency OCHA said, updating an earlier death toll of 12.
The DRC and the United States have said the attacks were launched from territory held by Rwandan troops and M23.OCHA said in a statement that most of those killed in the rockets strikes were women and children. One more woman was killed during a protest at one camp after the attacks, it said. "Our army is not doing enough to drive out the enemy. The worst thing is that they place their big guns not far from our camps," he told Reuters at one of the camps that was hit.
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