UN finds over 100 bodies in east Congo mass graves

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KINSHASA, May 24 (SPA) - United Nations peacekeepershave found over 100 bodies in three mass graves in the east ofDemocratic Republic of Congo, the country's U.N. mission said onSaturday. A patrol of South African soldiers discovered the graves onFriday near the village of Maboya in troubled North Kivuprovince. A U.N. spokesman told Reuters a preliminary excavationof the site indicated they had not been dug recently. "Apparently they were graves dating back to the 1990s, butit's difficult to know accurately," U.N. mission spokesman KemalSaiki said. "The first one they excavated contained 100 bodies. The second was seven, and the third one they couldn't estimate." Saiki said Congolese authorities were planning toinvestigate the site.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/558677

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