Government
troops and unidentified rebel forces clashed in eastern Democratic Republic of
Congo Sunday, military officials said.
Heavy weapons fire
could be heard after 21:00 at Sake in North Kivu region, about 30km west of the
city of Goma, officials and residents said.
A regional
military official confirmed the fighting to us but could not identify the
rebels.
There were no
immediate reports of casualties.
The M23 rebel
group controls part of the Democratic Republic of Congo's restive east.
Army tanks left
Goma for Sake late in the evening.
The M23 was formed
in May by former fighters in an ethnic Tutsi rebel group that was integrated
into the military under a 2009 peace deal whose terms the mutineers claim were
never fully implemented.
It controls a part
of North Kivu's Rutshuru territory, and has been accused of human rights
violations by the United Nations and activists.
The group denies
those accusations.
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