At least 12 people, including children, have been killed in twin bomb blasts that hit two camps for displaced people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
According to government officials, the United Nations and an aid group, the explosions targeted the camps in Lac Vert and Mugunga, near the city of Goma, the capital of North Kivu province,
The UN said in a statement that the attacks, in which at least 20 people were injured, were a flagrant violation of human rights and international humanitarian law and may constitute a war crime.
A resident of one of the camps told Newsmen that many of the victims were sleeping in their tents when the area was attacked.
The Congolese military and the United States accused the military in neighbouring Rwanda and the M23 rebel group of being behind the attacks.