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Intense fighting around Bujumbura

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    The army on Friday claimed to have killed over 100 Hutu rebels in three days of intense fighting southeast of the capital, Bujumbura, Reuters reported. “We killed 100 rebels and I was there myself and directed even their burial,” it quoted Mutambu administrator Pierre Claver Nankwa as saying. A senior security officer told Reuters the army had lost two soldiers in the battles. The rebels dismissed the government claims but confirmed that heavy fighting was taking place in the communes around Bujumbura, with the army shelling rebel posts at Buhoro in Nyambuye. Meanwhile, rebels killed five civilians they determined to be Tutsi after stopping three cars on the Bujumbura-Gatumba road some five km west of Bujumbura on Sunday evening, news agencies reported. A group of 200 attackers, believed to be PALIPEHUTU rebels, separated Hutu from Tutsi passengers before shooting dead the Tutsis and setting fire to the cars, AP reported.

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