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BUJUMBURA (Burundi): Fighting between Hutu rebels and the Tutsi-dominated army erupted in the capital on Sunday, one day after the army claimed it had driven the insurgents out of this central African nation's capital. The fighting broke out after the rebels of the National Liberation Forces attacked Mutanga, Gihosha, Gatoke and Vugizo neighbourhoods, with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles in the early hours. "I can hear the rebels singing Gospel songs near my house and bullets flying everywhere," said a Western aid worker living in Gatoke. Later, on Sunday, as the fighting subsided, a reporter counted 28 bodies lying on the streets of the affluent neighbourhood. Many of the dead were teenagers who appeared to be rebels — although dressed in civilian clothes, several had been carrying hand grenades(in the picture, a mother looks after her child at a refugee camp in Bijumbura). AP
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