7 killed in clashes between DRCongo, Ugandan navies
A man is pictured on the shores of Lake Edward. Kampala has stepped up patrols in recent months to crack down on illegal fishing on Lakes Edward and Albert, straddling Uganda and Congo.
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- "The Ugandan boat sank and four troops and three Ugandan civilians are dead," an official said.
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Four Ugandan soldiers and three civilians were killed Thursday in clashes on Lake Edward that lies between the two countries, a senior official in the Democratic Republic of Congo said.
A DR Congo naval patrol was "attacked this morning by a Ugandan patrol boat in Congolese waters," Donat Kibwana, the administrator of the Beni region in the eastern province of Nord-Kivu said.
"The Ugandan boat sank and four troops and three Ugandan civilians are dead," he said.
"On the Congolese side, a soldier and a civilian have been injured."
