Rwanda says 80 Hutu rebels killed

Reports on Rwandan state radio say government forces have killed eighty Hutu extremists in Ruhengeri district as they attempted to enter Rwanda from the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past few days.

There's been no independent confirmation.

Clashes have taken place almost daily over the past two weeks between rebels of the Interahamwe militia and Rwandan security forces in areas bordering the Congo.

Military sources in Kigali have said that former Hutu soldiers from the Rwandan army, together with the Interahamwe militia, have been massing on the border with the aim of bringing rebellion into Rwanda.

The Interahamwe militia fled to Congo after carrying out the 1994 genocide in Rwanda in which up to eight-hundred-thousand minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service