Assessment team finds most Kinama houses looted

An inter-agency assessment team which visited Kinama on Wednesday found that most of the houses had been looted during the fighting, but there was not widespread destruction. The death toll is still unknown, but body bags containing corpses were outside the houses, OCHA-Burundi reported. As yet, there was no information on the number of bodies still inside the houses. A defence ministry official said the displaced people (IDPs) were returning to Kinama, and therefore any humanitarian assistance should be given inside Kinama rather than at the IDP sites. The team witnessed some people returning to their homes with their belongings. Regideso, the commercial water supplier, was repairing some of the broken pipes and Medecins sans frontieres (MSF) was operating a mobile clinic. The report warned of the dangers posed by unexploded ordnance in Kinama.