KINSHASA (Reuters) - Thirty-two people have been killed in three days of fighting in eastern Congo between government soldiers and Rwandan Hutu rebels backed by Congolese militia allies, a top army officer said on Friday.
Clashes broke out late on Wednesday when gunmen overran army positions near the town of Nyabiondo, around 110 km (70 miles) northwest of Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu, in Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile eastern borderlands.
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