DR Congo army says several dozen Burundi rebels killed in east

Congolese army soldiers walk towards the front-line between two tanks near to the village of Kibumba, DRC on July 29, 2012. PHOTO | PHIL MOORE | AFP

DR Congo's army said Thursday that it had killed 36 Burundian rebels in a three-day operation in the eastern province of South Kivu, abutting Burundi.

Three soldiers were killed and four were injured in the operation which targeted "positions of Burundian rebels of the National Forces of Liberation (FNL) and Republican Forces of Burundi (FOREBU)," said provincial army spokesman Captain Dieudonne Kasereka.