BUJUMBURA,(Saba) - Dozens of unknown assailants attacked a U.N. refugee camp in western Burundi, shooting and hacking to death
at least 153 Congolese refugees, witnesses and local officials said Saturday.

The Hutu Forces for National Liberation (FNL), claimed responsibility for Friday night's attack, saying they were aiming to hit a military target near the camp. Burundi has a military camp about 500 meters from the refugee
camp.

The camp sheltered Congolese ethnic Tutsi refugees, known as the Banyamulenge, who fled fighting in the country's troubled border province of South Kivu, Niyonzima said.

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