Several people have been killed in protests in the east of the DRC Protest News

Clashes broke out between protesters and police in the capital of North Kivu province.

Several people have been reported killed by protesters as they clashed with security forces in the city of Goma, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Large rocks dotted a street where protesters gathered on Monday to fight police in protest of growing insecurity and to protest the arrival of security forces to calm unrest in neighboring Rwanda – a proclamation denied by the Congolese government.

Demonstrators rallied on the art routes early in the morning, setting up temporary barricades and burning tires. The shooter was struck in the capital of the province of North Kivu, and the police rolled in crying gas and used the real ammunition to scatter the protesters, stealing at least three weapons and attacking security positions.

“Two law enforcement officers were killed and two were seriously injured,” General Sylvain Ekenge, a spokesman for the military governor of North Kivu province, told reporters. “These actions will not go unpunished,” Ekeng said.

A local community leader and a police source who asked for anonymity told the AFP news agency that a protester was shot dead while riding a motorbike. Gomez civil society president Mario Ngavho told Reuters news agency that at least two civilians were killed and six wounded on Monday.

The main market in the city center was closed, as well as the banks and schools, following a call for a general shutdown to denounce the rise in crime in the city.

Many rubber bands are also disgusted with the rise in attacks by various armed groups in North Kivu and Ituri provinces, which prompted authorities to testify in May.state of siege“, Soldiers replacing officials in key positions.

But persistent deadly violence has called into question whether the strategy works and protesters have called for a re-assessment of the siege situation.

Demonstrators also said they were “against the entry of the Rwandan police into Goma” after the two countries signed an agreement last week to deal with cross-border trafficking.

“We will not support the arrival of the Rwandan police in Gomera. What are they hiding from us? ‘ said one of the protesters, Paluku Issak.

But DRC officials stressed that the suggestion that Rwandan soldiers would be accused of maintaining Goma law and order was not true.

“This presence of the Rwandan police in Goman only exists in the imagination of illusion sellers and manipulators, as well as in people of bad faith who are willing to jump on any rumors of causing disorder,” said a military spokesman for Ekenge. governor.

Relations between the two countries have been strained for the past 30 years, with Rwanda accusing the DRC of harboring ethnic Hutu who were responsible for the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Rwanda was later among the neighboring countries that invaded the DRC in its civil wars, and the two countries have accused each other of supporting armed militias against each other.

Many Goma residents are suspicious of the newly signed agreement, fearing that it could lead to the inclusion of parts of eastern Rwanda in the DRC.

“We don’t want Rwandans in our country,” protester Tommy Mashauri said.

Earlier this month, DRC start up A joint military operation with at least 1,700 troops with Uganda He crossed the DRC east To fight the Allied Democratic Forces, who are considered deadly among the many armed groups operating in the mineral-rich region.