**After M23 rebels launched a new offensive against the town of Bambo, north of Goma, frightened residents fled, men, women, and children, carrying what they could. **M23 rebels in the eastern DR Congo on Thursday (Oct. 26). At midday on Thursday (Oct. 26), shells hit the town centre and thousands of panic-stricken residents began running north to reach government-controlled areas. "I don't know where my husband and seven children are," said Dusabe Ngurikiye, 37, who had hurriedly fled the town. We don't know where we're going now, where are we going to sleep?," said a group who had escaped 10 kilometres north of Bambo.
