{UAH} THISIS FROM NORTH OF GOMA NOW

DRC: New fighting between FARDC and M23 north of Goma

published 6 hours ago, 4 minutes | Last update July 22, 2013 at 10:27 | in News , The One , North Kivu , Security . Tags: AFP ,FARDC , FDLR , M23

Two FARDC soldiers with heavy weapons, during the parade of June 30, 2010 in Kinshasa. Radio Okapi / Dr. John Bompengo

Calm returned Monday, July 22 afternoon in the group Kibati, north of Goma, after heavy fighting between the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and the rebel March 23 (M23) in the day . The spokesman of the army in North Kivu, Colonel Olivier Hamuli, announced without elaborating on the outcome of the fighting.

The fighting reportedly took place intermittently throughout the day on Monday, before stopping before nightfall, according to the spokesman of the FARDC in North Kivu. No report has been advanced so far in terms of casualties.

But a rocket landed this afternoon Mabanga North neighborhood, without exploding. The impact, however, remains visible on the clapboard house on Avenue salongo II, partially destroyed.

According to the NGO deminers Synergy for Mine Action ( Sylam ), called for help, another rocket would have fallen not far from the clinic Konde in Katoyi neighborhood. The rocket had exploded without causing victims, the sources said.

Even helicopters FARDC were seen throughout the day to the north of the city. All material facts that show the progress of the fighting to the north of Goma, said a resident of the city.

Fighting took place " by FDLR and inserted behind our front lines in the park nat ional Virunga , "said an official of the M23 contacted by telephone.

Fighting between FARDC and M23 were taken on July 14 in the group Kibati. But a relative lull was observed on the front lines since last Thursday.

Wednesday, July 17, FARDC had intensified their shelling of the positions held by the M23 on the hills around the towns of Kanyarucinya and Kibati, about fifteen kilometers north of Goma in North Kivu.

Tanks, mortars and heavy machine guns mounted on Haystacks pounded for part of the afternoon the positions of M23. As before, three army helicopters were also made against rebel positions by firing rockets, according to an AFP repor

 

 

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