DR Congo tightens security in east after anti-UN unrest

Anger: Anti-UN demonstrators in Goma on Tuesday

Anger: Anti-UN demonstrators in Goma on Tuesday

Soldiers and police officers were deployed across eastern DR Congo towns Wednesday after days of deadly anti-UN protests that have claimed at least 19 lives in the volatile region.

Calm appeared to have returned to several towns in North Kivu province, according to AFP reporters, after unrest broke out in The Breaking News provincial capital Goma on Monday and quickly spread.

Crowds had stormed a United Nations peacekeeping base and a supply centre in the city of Goma in North Kivu on Monday, looting valuables and chanting hostile slogans.

Three UN peacekeepers were then killed on Tuesday after protests spread, Breaking News in an attack on their base in the town of Butembo.