Crowds run wild in the DRC -Thousands of rioters attacked UN

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By Finbarr O'Reilly

Kinshasa - Thousands of rioters attacked United Nations compounds across the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday, furious that UN troops had not stopped renegade soldiers seizing the eastern town of Bukavu.

The UN said its guards shot dead three looters in the capital Kinshasa where tens of thousands of demonstrators rampaged through the streets, smashing cars and attacking international staff while UN and army helicopters buzzed the riverside city.

UN officials said demonstrators had attacked missions in the central town of Kindu, the northeastern city of Kisangani and the southern mining centre of Lubumbashi, where staff sought refuge with the army.

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United Nations under fire in DRC

Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo

The fall of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) town of Bukavu has strained Kinshasa's relations with neighbouring Rwanda and on Thursday prompted countrywide protests against United Nations peacekeepers that left two people dead in Kinshasa.

Rwanda quickly rejected DRC President Joseph Kabila's accusation that it masterminded Wednesday's capture of Bukavu by DRC army officers drawn from the Congolese Rally for Democracy (RCD), a former rebel group backed by Kigali.

Together with thousands of people in cities across the DRC, Kabila was also bitter about the failure of Monuc, the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, to intervene in Bukavu.

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