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Commander Rebelle Corneille Nangaa says he’s unscathed while the video shows people who are dead and injured in Bakavu.
The explosions rocked a big city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during a rally for the Rebel M23 group and their supporters to whom one of the best commanders of the armed group attended.
The first explosion in Bukavu caused panic, sending participants to flee the region before a second explosion is retreating, according to the AFP news agency. Residents said explosions were accompanied by gunshots.
People have run in the streets, some bleeding and carrying soft bodies, showed the video. Residents said they saw dead, but there was no immediate information about the number of victims.
The meeting was the first to follow by the commander of M23 Corneille Nangaa, head of the Congo River Alliance, since his forces took control of the second largest city in the region almost two weeks ago.
Nangaa told the reuters news agency by phone that neither he nor the other senior rebel commanders had been injured during the attack and that he blamed the president of the DRC, Felix Tshisekedi, without providing proofs. There was no immediate comment from the government.
Bukavu is one of the two key cities in the turbulent region seized in recent weeks by M23 anti -government fighters, which, according to United Nations experts, are supported by Rwanda.
The armed group has tried to demonstrate that it can restore order on the territory it has captured in the army of the DRC and reopened its ports and schools.
The M23 fighters swept the eastern DRC, entering the key cities and killing around 7,000 people. There have also been sexual abuse reports on children and the recruitment of minors as soldiers.
The rebellious advance aroused fears of a regional war which could attract the neighbors of the DRC, including Rwanda.
The advance has been described as the most serious climbing in more than a long -standing decade of conflict in the eastern DRC, which is rooted in the overflow of the 1994 genocide of Rwanda in the DRC and the struggle for the control of the vast mineral resources of the DRC.
Rwanda said he was defending himself against the threat of a Hutu militia, who, according to her, is fighting with the Congolese army.
