MORE THAN 100,000 CHILDREN HAVE BEEN DISPLACED BY THE LATEST ESCALATION IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, UNICEF SAID ON SUNDAY, WARNING THE NUMBERS ARE EXPECTED TO RISE AS VIOLENCE SPREADS.(PHOTO).

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 More than 100,000 children have been displaced by the latest escalation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, UNICEF said on Sunday, warning the numbers are expected to rise as violence spreads. Since Dec. 1, intense fighting has uprooted more than 500,000 people, with children accounting for over 100,000 of those displaced in South Kivu alone, the UN agency said in a statement released Sunday. It said since Dec. 2, hundreds have been killed in the fighting, and children have been among the victims, with four students killed, six injured, and at least seven schools attacked or damaged. The rapid escalation has forced hundreds of thousands of children and families to flee within Congo and into neighboring Burundi and Rwanda, it added. Many people fleeing the violence have crossed into Burundi, with over 50,000 new arrivals reported between Dec. 6 and 11, nearly half of them children, UNICEF said, adding that the numbers are expected to rise as more displaced are identified. “Chi...

CO-PILOT LAST WORDS FROM THE MISSING MALAYSIAN PLANE.

                   The co-pilot of the missing Malaysian plane,spoke his last words heard from the cock pit.The airline Chief Executive today Monday said,that they are considering suicide by the captain or first officer as one possile explanation for the disappearance.Suspicions of hijacking or sabotage had hardened further when officials said on sunday thar the last radio message from the plane an informal ''All right,good night'',was spoken after the system,known as ''ACARS'',was shut down.Ahmad Jauhari said today,''Initial investigations indicate it was the co-pilot who basically spoke the last time it was recorded on tape''.The last transmission from the ACARS system,a maintenance computer that relays data on the plane's status had been received at 1.07am,as the plane crossed Malaysia's northeast coast and headed out over the Gulf of Thailand.Ahmad Jauhari further said ''We don't know when the ACARS was switched off after that.It was supposed to transmit 30 minutes from there,but thar transmission did not come through''.

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