30,000 homeless after massacres

Bujumbura - Nearly 30,000 people who fled a series of massacres in southern Burundi in the past two weeks have no food or shelter…

Bujumbura - Nearly 30,000 people who fled a series of massacres in southern Burundi in the past two weeks have no food or shelter and are threatened by disease, officials said yesterday.

At least 185 people were killed in the province of Makamba in attacks blamed by independent sources on both the Tutsi-dominated army and Hutu rebels.

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