One security official, who requested anonymity, said that soldiers quarrelled with so-called Wazalendo militiamen which ended in an exchange of fire.
GOMA - At least six people have been killed after a dispute between soldiers and pro-government militants in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, several sources said on Sunday.
"They shot at each other in this misunderstanding and there are six dead and nine wounded," the security official said. A Tutsi-led group, the M23 has seized swathes of territory since launching an offensive in late 2021, driving over one million people from their homes. Adolphe Muhire, a member of the DRC's civil protection service near Goma, said that one soldier, one policeman and four civilians had been killed.Three other sources gave similar death tolls, although they cited different figures for the number of people injured in the incident.A spokesman for the Congolese army in Goma was not immediately available for comment.
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