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At least 15 dead in DR Congo ethnic clashes: local sources


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At least 15 people from DR Congo's Bantu community were killed Thursday in an attack blamed on Pygmies in an area of the southeast that has seen repeated ethnic clashes, local sources said. "Clashes between Bantus and Pygmies in the village of Piana Mwanga have left 15 Bantus dead, 37 injured and 65 houses burned," Paul Kwanga, bishop of the southeastern town of Manono, told AFP. Local civil society leader Modeste Kubali said 17 people had been killed and 47 injured, with 65 homes torched.

 

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