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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Assailants forced a group of villagers into their huts and set them on fire in eastern Congo, killing 39 people and injuring 17 others, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday.
The attack came late Saturday in Ntulumamba village, some 45 miles northwest of Bukavu, U.N. spokesman Kemal Saiki said. Communications with the remote area are difficult.
Villagers who managed to escape blamed Hutu rebels for the attack, but Saiki said this could not be independently verified. Some 10,000 Rwandan Hutu rebels operate in eastern Congo after fleeing their homeland following the 1994 genocide.
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