Fighting rages on in Congo's Goma

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Video from social media shows armed men running and M23 rebels riding trucks in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Goma as the sound of heavy gunfire echoes through the streets.  The Rwanda-backed rebels entered Goma on Monday (Jan 27) in a major escalation of a three-decade conflict.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00The sound of gunfire could be heard in central Goma as dozens of Rwanda-backed rebels rode

00:13on the back of trucks in social media video verified by Reuters on Tuesday.

00:19Armed men could also be seen running across a road amid a fierce gunfight.

00:23The UN and other aid agencies said dead bodies were scattered in the streets and hospitals

00:28were overwhelmed with patients with gunshot and shrapnel wounds.

00:34Humanitarian situation in and around Goma remains extremely worrying.

00:38And again this morning, our colleagues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo report

00:43heavy small arms fire and mortar fire across the city and the presence of many dead bodies

00:50in the streets.

00:52We have reports of rapes committed by fighters, looting of property, including of a humanitarian

00:58warehouse and humanitarian and health facilities being hit.

01:02The M23 rebels entered Goma on Monday in a major escalation of a three-decade conflict

01:08rooted in the long fallout from the Rwandan genocide and control of Congo's abundant mineral

01:14resources.

01:15They were continuing to face pockets of resistance from the army and their backers.

01:20Elsewhere, demonstrators attacked embassies in Congo, alleging foreign complicity in Rwandan-backed

01:27rebel advances.

01:28A European diplomat told Reuters that the embassies of France, the United States, Rwanda,

01:34Uganda and Kenya were targeted by the protesters.

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