Congo-Kinshasa: Grenade Blast in Goma Kills Two, Wounds 16

Two people - a priest and a nine year-old girl - were killed and 16 injured when a grenade was thrown into a Roman Catholic church congregation during an open-air mass being held at a school on Sunday morning in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) city of Goma, news agencies reported.

"An individual who has not yet been identified threw a grenade into the crowd at a communion service," Jean-Pierre Lola Kisanga, deputy spokesman of the Rwandan-backed Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD-Goma) armed opposition movement that controls eastern DRC, was quoted as telling Reuters on Sunday. He told AFP that the motive of the attack remained unknown. Bizima Karaha, RCD-Goma security chief, told the BBC he believed the attack was politically motivated, and was intended to further derail the peace process.

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