RCD troops reportedly kill 10 Hutu rebels

Rebels of the Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD) on Thursday claimed they carried out a major swoop against Rwandan and Burundi Hutu rebels in the area of Shabunda, some 100 km northwest of Bukavu in South Kivu. “Our troops foiled a major attack those rogue forces were preparing to launch on Bukavu town,” the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) quoted RCD’s Vice-President Moise Nyarugabo as saying. He said RCD troops gave a “bloody nose” to the combination of Interahamwe Hutu militia and their Burundi allies of the Forces pour la defense de la democratie (FDD). “We killed 10 of the assailants, others scattered in the forest,” he said. “A number of weapons and boxes of drugs were also captured.”