Kivu: gunmen attack major Murhesa seminary, student killed


MISNA
Congo DR
05.31.00


Last night fifty some gunmen attacked the Major Seminary of Murhesa, situated around 25km north of Bukavu (administrative centre of South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo), killing a 28-year-old seminarian Claude Amzati Kasuya, originally from Kindu. As explained by our MISNa sources (who will remain anonymous), the gunmen stormed the institute at 0:30 (local time) and killed Amzati Kasuya in exactly the same way as Father Georges Kakuja was killed six months earlier, always in Kivu. "The bullet was shot from above towards the ground, entering on one side of the neck travelling through the thorax and exiting in the kidney area", underlined our sources. The Seminary was also looted. In the same hours, a village near Murhesa was raided by another two armed groups, acting in co-ordination with the attackers of the Seminary. A night guard of a deposit was killed, with two stab wounds to the neck, for attempting to resist. His body was found this morning near a ditch. (BO)