Many street bodies, hospitals that struggle with the intensification of Juma’s battles United Nations News

Heavy battles Between the M23 fighters and the Congolese government forces in the eastern city of Juma left many bodies in the streets, where hospitals are struggling to deal with the increasing number of losses.

On Monday, the rebels, the United Nations, said, were supported by Rwanda, and they walked in Goma and declared the main city under their control, indicating a major blow to the Congolese army and a dangerous escalation in the conflict that continued for years killed hundreds and explained millions in the region.

The Minister of Democratic Democratic Development in the Congo (DRC) said that the Congolese army took control of 80 percent of Juma, with the Rwandan forces either on the outskirts of the city or returning across the border.

At a press conference on Tuesday, the United Nations and other relief agencies warned that hospitals are mired in Jomah with the treatment of hundreds of patients with mortar wounds and shrapnel wounds while many bodies are located in the streets.

“There are hundreds of people in the hospital, and the greatest of them suffer from fireworks,” said Adelaid Marsang, a response coordinator for emergency cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

At least 17 people were killed in Guma on Monday, and Agence France -Presse news agency reported that doctors in the city were treating 367 people who were injured in the clashes. Members of civil society and non -governmental organizations in Goma put the death toll at 25, with 375 people.

“We have reports that the neighborhoods are quiet, after a few minutes, we hear reports about a new bombing,” said Greg Ram, the rural director of children’s rescue at DRC.

Jeans Lrek, a spokesman for the United Nations Humanitarian Office, told a press conference, quoting reports from the United Nations employees in the city that the heavy small weapons fire and the mortar distributor continued in the streets on Tuesday, where many bodies can be seen, said Jins Lrek, the office spokesman. Humanity of the United Nations at a press conference, citing reports from the United Nations employees in the city.

Meanwhile, the World Food Program said that the food aid activities in Goma and around “have been temporarily stopped and expressed” Anxiety about food deficiency.

Also on Tuesday, South Africa confirmed Three of its soldiers died In the fighting on Monday, after he was arrested in Crossfire.

The fighting has sent thousands of people who flowed from Goma, who was a major regional center for humanitarian assistance to the displaced. Hundreds of thousands of fighting have fled since the beginning of the year – higher than 3 million who were displaced in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo last year.

“The city is in real difficulty, and if it has not fallen overnight, it will be in the coming days.” “Rwanda must put its weapons, calm must return and the dialogue needs to be restarted.”

A Reuters resident of the Guma news agency told Reuters that he saw men wearing the Rwandan army uniform on Monday.

“In the evening, I went out to see what was the situation. I saw soldiers wearing new Rwandan clothes.

Fire exchanges between the Congolese and Rwandan forces also occurred on both sides of the border crossing near Guma. Five civilians were killed and 25 were seriously injured on the outskirts of the Rwandan border town Gisenyi.

M23, or March 23, is one of the hundreds of armed groups working in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo and seeks to control critical metal mines.

Group component From Tutsi fighters and claims to be fighting for the rights of the Tutsi minority in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It appeared in 2012 after the outbreak of a group of armed forces from DRC (FARDC), complaining of poor treatment.

In 2012, M23 first seized Juma, but the Congolese army, with the support of the United Nations forces, pushed the rebels to the eastern hills on the border with Rwanda in 2013.

The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the United Nations accused Rwanda, during the era of President Paul Kagame, of supporting M23 with soldiers and weapons in an attempt to control the Republic of the Congo rich in metal.

“There is no doubt that there are Rwandan forces in Goma supporting the M23,” said Jean -Pierre Lacroix, head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces. “It is difficult to determine exactly what the numbers are.”

Rwanda denied this accusation and accused the Democratic Republic of the Congo of harboring members of the Democratic Forces to Liberation of Rwanda, an anti -kag rebel group that was involved in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

With the escalation of the fighting, the African Union’s Peace and Security Council will hold a meeting later on Tuesday to discuss the crisis.

The United Nations Security Council will meet on Tuesday to discuss the crisis.