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Congo town remains tense

BUNIA (Congo) june 8. Hundreds of people carrying mattresses and pots and pans nervously returned to their homes in this troubled northeastern Congolese town on Sunday, one day after tribal fighting killed at least five people. The fighting erupted on Saturday after hundreds of gunmen from a Lendu tribal faction launched dawn raids on Bunia in a bid to recapture areas from the Union of Congolese Patriots, or UPC, a Hema group that controls the town, forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes.

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