A total of 40 Burundian rebels were killed in a joint offensive by the militaries of the Democratic Republic (DR) of Congo and Burundi, a Congolese army spokesman announced on Sunday.
Lieutenant Marc Elongo-Kyondwa said the two armies "carried out a high-intensity offensive operation" against Burundian rebels of the National Liberation Forces (FNL).
He added that the enemy "suffered a heavy loss of men and equipment: 40 attackers neutralized (killed).”
The two armies "dislodged" the FNL "from all the four hills overlooking the town of Nabombi," considered a command post of the FNL's self-proclaimed general Aloys Nzabampema, he noted.
On a separate note, a stampede at a concert in Congo left nine spectators and two police officers dead last October. The concert belonged to African music star Fally Ipupa at the biggest stadium in DR Congo's capital.
Interior Minister Daniel Aselo Okito revealed that too many people had been allowed into Kinshasa's 80,000-capacity Martyrs' stadium on Saturday night.
"Eleven people dead... including two police," the minister told reporters at the stadium, sending condolences to relatives of the casualties.
He deplored the frequent "loss of human life and damage to equipment" during events held at the stadium.
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