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'Massacre' in DR Congo
bbc.co.uk -- Human rights activists say more than 200 people have been killed by special death squads sent to the Congolese city of Kisangani, following the seizure of the main radio station by self-declared army mutineers last week. Eyewitnesses told the BBC that many of the dead were innocent civilians, while the rest are policemen and army officers. Speaking on condition of anonymity, aid workers described the gruesome task of pulling up to 150 decapitated and disembowelled bodies out of the town's rivers. And people from one of the poorest districts, Mangobo, told of how a squad of drunk Rwandan and Congolese rebel fighters fired indiscriminately into their homes, killing about 40 innocent people. Airport workers claim more bodies and two fresh mass graves can be found just beyond the airport runway. Human rights workers are seeking refuge with international organisations, too scared to sleep in their own beds.

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