NNA - The United Nations on Friday announced that at least 700 people were killed and 2,800 wounded in the fighting that took place between Sunday and Thursday in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo to control the city of Goma.

Spokesperson for the international organization, Stephane Dujarric, said that "the World Health Organization and its partners, with the government, conducted an assessment between January 26 and yesterday, and reported that 700 people were killed and 2,800 people were wounded," expecting this toll to "increase," as reported by "Agence France-Presse."

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