00:00The sound of gunfire could be heard in central Goma as dozens of Rwanda-backed rebels rode
00:13on the back of trucks in social media video verified by Reuters on Tuesday.
00:19Armed men could also be seen running across a road amid a fierce gunfight.
00:23The UN and other aid agencies said dead bodies were scattered in the streets and hospitals
00:28were overwhelmed with patients with gunshot and shrapnel wounds.
00:34Humanitarian situation in and around Goma remains extremely worrying.
00:38And again this morning, our colleagues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo report
00:43heavy small arms fire and mortar fire across the city and the presence of many dead bodies
00:50in the streets.
00:52We have reports of rapes committed by fighters, looting of property, including of a humanitarian
00:58warehouse and humanitarian and health facilities being hit.
01:02The M23 rebels entered Goma on Monday in a major escalation of a three-decade conflict
01:08rooted in the long fallout from the Rwandan genocide and control of Congo's abundant mineral
01:14resources.
01:15They were continuing to face pockets of resistance from the army and their backers.
01:20Elsewhere, demonstrators attacked embassies in Congo, alleging foreign complicity in Rwandan-backed
01:27rebel advances.
01:28A European diplomat told Reuters that the embassies of France, the United States, Rwanda,
01:34Uganda and Kenya were targeted by the protesters.
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