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A UN spokesman has said that at least seven hundred people have been killed since Sunday in intense fighting in Goma, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu province.

Rwandan-backed armed group M23 has seized Goma, the biggest city in the country’s east, and is advancing south as volunteers and the struggling Congolese army attempt to beat them back.

Spokesman for the UN secretary-general, Stephane Dujarric, said the World Health Organisation and its partners conducted an assessment with the government between Sunday and Thursday.

He said it was reported that seven hundred people have been killed and two thousand eight hundred people injured who are receiving treatment in health facilities.

Goma was taken after fighting earlier this week, and M23 fighters have vowed to march to the capital Kinshasa.

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