Artillery lands in east Congo city, humanitarian camp

Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Artillery rounds landed in a heavily populated neighbourhood of Congo’s eastern city of Goma on Wednesday, killing a child and injuring other civilians a day before a planned visit by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a human rights group said.

Reporting by Chrispin Mvano in Goma and Joe Bavier in Abidjan; Editing by Daniel Flynn appeared on www.reuters.com

Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Artillery rounds landed in a heavily populated neighbourhood of Congo’s eastern city of Goma on Wednesday, killing a child and injuring other civilians a day before a planned visit by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, a human rights group said.

From early morning, government troops and M23 rebels exchanged heavy weapons fire for a third straight day outside the city, the largest in Democratic Republic of Congo’s turbulent and mineral-rich east.

“A shell landed in Goma’s Ndosho neighbourhood around 9 a.m. this morning, killing a two-year-old girl and wounding three members of her family, including two girls and a boy,” Ida Sawyer, Congo researcher for Human Rights Watch, told Reuters. To keep reading click here.