Burundi Rebels Claim Attack on Army Soldiers in Congo Kills Nine
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Burundi’s rebel National Forces of Liberation said its fighters killed nine Burundian army soldiers in an attack in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.
The insurgents shot dead the soldiers at Kiliba Ondes in Congo’s South Kivu province, near the border between the two countries, Eraste Dondogori, a spokesman for the armed group, said in a phone interview yesterday. Burundi army spokesman Colonel Gaspard Baratuza denied the attack took place and repeated the government’s denial that it has any troops in Congo.