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Death stalks displaced people in eastern DR Congo

Displaced families

Displaced families in North Kivu, eastern DR Congo. FILE PHOTO | AFP

By  AFP

Automatic weapons fire crackled out, and Captain Miraj, a Bangladeshi peacekeeper, told everyone to run.

Around 20 local Red Cross workers had gathered in Dhedja, a village in the troubled northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

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