{"id":28974,"date":"2025-02-28T09:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T06:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/at-least-11-killed-in-blasts-at-m23-rally-in-eastern-dr-congo\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T09:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T06:20:14","slug":"at-least-11-killed-in-blasts-at-m23-rally-in-eastern-dr-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/at-least-11-killed-in-blasts-at-m23-rally-in-eastern-dr-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 11 killed in blasts at M23 rally in eastern DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5401364.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The DRC\u2019s presidency, which says neighboring Rwanda is backing the rebels, said in a post on X that \u201cseveral\u201d deaths occurred on Thursday and blamed \u201ca foreign army illegally present on Congolese soil\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Corneille Nangaa \u2013 who is the leader of the Congo River Alliance, which includes M23, and who had himself been present at the rally \u2013 said grenades were used in the explosions and were the same type used by Burundi\u2019s army in the DRC. His claims could not be verified, Al Jazeera reported.<\/p>\n<p>The first explosion caused panic, sending attendees fleeing from the area before a second explosion rang out, according to the AFP news agency. Residents said the explosions were accompanied by gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>People ran through the streets, some bleeding and carrying limp bodies, the video showed. Residents said they saw dead people.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was the first to be attended by Nangaa since his forces seized control of Bukavu, the region\u2019s second largest city, nearly two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Nangaa told the Reuters news agency by phone that neither he nor other senior rebel commanders were wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>SD\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/229019\/At-least-11-killed-in-blasts-at-M23-rally-in-eastern-DR-Congo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DRC\u2019s presidency, which says neighboring Rwanda is backing the rebels, said in a post on X that \u201cseveral\u201d deaths occurred on Thursday and blamed \u201ca foreign army illegally present on Congolese soil\u201d. Corneille Nangaa \u2013 who is the leader of the Congo River Alliance, which includes M23, and who had himself been present at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}