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ROME, April 8 (Reuter) - Nineteen Roman Catholic nuns and priests have
been massacred in the Rwandan capital Kigali in violence after the
deaths of the Rwanda and Burundi presidents, the Jesuit order said on
Friday.
The order said in a statement that all the victims of the killings on
Thursday were African. Three European Jesuits who witnessed the
massacre were spared, the order said.
The statement said the killings took place at the Jesuit order's
Centre of Spirituality
in Kigali. It did not say who was responsible.
Those killed...included 11 nuns, five secular priests and three
Jesuits. All were African. Three European Jesuits who were at the
centre when the massacre took place were spared,
the statement, issued
by the Jesuit headquarters, said.
Fighting raged for a second day in Kigali and around its rebel-held
parliament early on Friday as rival tribes and political groups battled
for control in renewed civil war.
President Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira, president of
neighbouring Burundi, died when a plane bringing them back from
regional peace talks in Tanzania was hit by a rocket on Wednesday
night.
(c) Reuters Limited 1994
