40 Burundi rebels killed in east DR Congo

BUKAVU, DR Congo: Forty Burundian rebels have been killed in a joint offensive by the militaries of Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi in eastern DRC, a Congolese army spokesman said on Sunday.

The two armies ‘carried out a high-intensity offensive operation’ against Burundian rebels of the National Liberation Forces (FNL), Lieutenant Marc ElongoKyondwa said in a statement. The enemy “suffered a heavy loss of men and equipment: 40 attackers neutralised (killed),” he said.

The two armies ‘dislodged’ the FNL ‘from all the four hills overlooking the town of Nabombi,’ considered a command post of the FNL’s self-proclaimed general Aloys Nzabampema, he added.