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‘I feel my heart breaking into a thousand pieces’: Goma fills with refugees trying to flee fighting in DRC

Medics work round the clock to treat the injured, while displaced families seek safety as conflict between M23 rebels and government forces intensifies

The doctors and nurses at Ndosho hospital in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are working round the clock with a stream of injured people arriving each day. People trying to escape the fighting between the rebel militia group M23 and government forces have been arriving in the regional capital of North Kivu province in their thousands over the past 10 days.

Moustapha Ngabo, 36, is standing outside a ward, watching anxiously as doctors examine his two-year-old daughter. His shirt is splattered with her blood. “There was fighting between the M23 and the army in the hills,” he says. “We took nothing with us as we left.”

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