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Rebels surrender Bokungu

    NAIROBI
    The rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD) said on Friday it had surrendered the key town of Bokungu, Equateur Province, to government-aligned forces amid heavy bombardment on Thursday. Rebel forces could no longer resist helicopter and river assaults at Bokungu in the northwest of the country, but withdrew to a new defensive line where they could prevent government and Zimbabwean forces from gaining access to allied forces besieged at Ikela, the Associated Press news agency quoted RCD spokesman Kin-Kiey Mulumba as saying. There was "a massive attack" by the government alliance, involving three gunboats, four helicopters and Antonov bombers, Mulumba claimed.

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