The site was later secured and no one was injured, the official said as reported by the New York Times. People in several neighbourhoods reported small arms fire and some loud explosions on Tuesday morning. Rwanda says some of the ousted perpetrators have been sheltering in Congo since the genocide, forming militias with alliances with the Congolese government, and pose a threat to Congolese Tutsis and Rwanda itself.
Sky News reporter, Yousra Elbagir witnessed rebels taking over Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo while Congolese forces surrendered their uniforms, reported with a video showing the DRC soldiers pulling off their military uniforms and dropping them at a section of the road in Goma. Also in the Congolese capital Kinshasa which is about 1, kilometres 1, miles west of Goma, protesters attacked a UN compound and embassies including those of Rwanda, Uganda, France and the United States, expressing anger at what they said was foreign interference or inactions that enabled M23 rebels to be able to take control of Goma.
Looters ransacked the embassy of Kenya, according to local media and videos from residents in the capital city. Security forces later responded to attacks targeting Ugandan, Rwandan, American, Kenyan, and French Embassies as protesters in Kinshasa stormed these diplomatic buildings, accusing them of supporting M23 rebels who are currently in control in the city of Goma.
The sound of gunfire could be heard in the capital of North Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo as dozens of M23 rebel fighters rode on the back of trucks in social media video verified and published by Reuters on Tuesday. Dead bodies were scattered in the streets of the city, and hospitals were overwhelmed with patients with gunshot and shrapnel wounds, a day after the rebels marched into Goma, the biggest city in eastern DRC, the UN and other aid agencies said on Tuesday.
The Red Cross said that one of its hospitals had received over patients within 24 hours with head wounds and chest trauma from mortars and shrapnel. M23 rebels entered Goma on Monday in a major escalation of a three-decade conflict. They were continuing to face pockets of resistance from few army units and their backers. The New Times news team who visited the site on Tuesday, reported that some of them are being treated from injuries.
