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UNITED NATIONS, April 7 (Reuter) - The United Nations said Thursday
three Belgian U.N. military observers were killed in Rwanda.
Three Belgium military observers were killed,
spokesman Joe Sills
said. He said a number of other U.N. observers were missing but he had
no details.
Sills said Belgium's U.N. representatives had been informed.
There are reports there have been attacks on the U.N. compound but I
can't confirm them,
he said.
Rwanda's President Juvenal Habyarimana Burundi's President Cyprien
Nytaryamira were killed late Wednesday when rockets downed their plane
as they came back from a peace conference in Tanzania. Both were from
the majority Hutu tribe, long at odds with the Tutsi minority in both
countries.
U.S. officials said they had heard that the prime minister of Rwanda
had been shot in front of U.N. personnel. U.N. officials said they had
also heard the reports but could not confirm them.
The United Nations has a peacekeeping force of 2,500 in Rwanda and
about 250 civilians in Burundi.
(c) Reuters Limited 1994
