By Sunday, however, a team was able to enter the town by helicopter and exhumed the remains of the observers, which were taken to Bunia. The UN plans to investigate the killings, Toure said.
There are about 700 unarmed UN military observers in Congo, 32 of whom were in Ituri, a resource-rich province that has been plagued by massacres and killings as rival tribal and rebel factions have fought for control of the area during the more than 4 1/2-year civil war in Congo.
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