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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - The U.N. evacuated dozens of staff Wednesday from a remote east Congo town after mobs of stone-throwing protesters angry over the possible return of refugees from a minority ethnic group ransacked U.N. and other humanitarian agencies there, officials said.
Four unarmed U.N. military observers were wounded in the violence and flown by helicopter from the town of Moba along with 30 civilian U.N. personnel, said Maj. Gabriel de Brosses, a spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping force in Congo.
The protesters, angry over rumors of the return of ethnic Congolese Tutsis, or Banyamulenge, looted a house used by the U.N. observers and wrecked the offices of the U.N. refugee agency and other aid groups, de Brosses said.
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