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Some 1,700 IDPs arrive in Muyinga

    NAIROBI

    At least 1,700 people fleeing rampaging rebels in the communes of Kiremba and Gasorwe arrived in the nearby northeastern Burundi town of Muyinga on Monday where most of them were sheltered in two primary schools, humanitarian sources told IRIN.

    "International NGOs are trying to coordinate help with water and sanitation," a humanitarian worker said on Tuesday.

    The worker said that WFP had 400 mt of food - mostly peas and maize - in the area but on Monday needed transport to bring in oil. The worker was unable to confirm reports by Burundi's Bonesha radio on Monday that the Hutu rebels had "razed" the camp for displaced people in Cumba, "very close" to Muyinga.

    The radio reported that the road running west from Muyinga to Ngozi was closed on Monday morning. Similarly, the humanitarian worker told IRIN that highway RN 6 between Gasogo and Gasorwe, west of Muyinga, and some 18-km of highway along RN 14 from Gashoho to Muyingi was also closed on Monday.

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