KINSHASA—Rwandan Hutu rebels killed at least 12 Congolese civilians on Wednesday when they opened fire in a refugee camp in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern North Kivu province, United Nations officials said.
The killings followed fighting between rebels of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) and Congo government troops who were trying to drive them out of their strongholds near the border with neighbouring Rwanda.
"They fired indiscriminately inside the camp ... The death toll is now at 12 killed and 24 wounded," U.N. military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Jean-Paul Dietrich told Reuters.
U.N. officials said that during their retreat, the rebels entered a refugee camp at Kinyandoni, around 75 km (45 miles) north of the North Kivu provincial capital Goma. They started stealing and looting and opened fire, they said.
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