Unidentified attackers fired on United Nations offices in the northeastern Congolese town of Bunia on Tuesday, a day after U.N. troops detained army and security chiefs of a tribal militia. Leocadio Salmeron, a spokesman for the U.N. mission in Congo, said U.N. troops fired into the air to disperse a crowd of demonstrators outside the office and no one was hurt. But Etienne Membe Ngona, the deputy security chief for the Union of Congolese Patriots, or UPC, said one person was killed and three others wounded by the U.N. troops.
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The assailants were hiding among the demonstrators protesting the detention of Floribert Kisembo, UPC chief of staff, and Rafiki Saba, the security chief of the same main Hema tribal faction, Salmeron said by telephone from Bunia. |