{{Violent clashes between rebels and soldiers in the restive east of the Democratic Republic of Congo have left 40 people dead, government and military officials said Thursday.}}<\/p>\n
Fighting broke out between Mai-Mai militia and government troops on Wednesday in the town of Beni, some 250 kilometres (155 miles) north of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, Colonel Richard Bisamaza said.<\/p>\n
Government spokesman Lambert Mende told a press conference that 32 militia fighters were killed as well as eight soldiers.<\/p>\n
Bisamaza earlier told press the Mai Mai attacked army buildings to try to free a number of their colleagues who had been arrested and were being held there.<\/p>\n
However, they fled after an hour of exchanging gunfire.<\/p>\n
DR Congo has ramped up its efforts to tackle these armed movements.<\/p>\n
The first troops of a 3,000-strong African intervention brigade created by the UN Security Council to take on the armed groups, arrived in the country earlier this week.<\/p>\n
The brigade will assist the UN force known as MONUSCO already present in the country.<\/p>\n
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