THE Rwanda-backed M23 militia abducted at least 130 sick and wounded men from two hospitals in a major city in eastern Congo, the United Nations said on Monday.

On February 28, the M23 militia raided the CBCA Ndosho Hospital and Heal Africa Hospital in Goma, a strategic city they seized earlier this year, the UN Human Rights Office spokesperson, Ravina Shamdasani, said in a statement.

The rebels took 116 patients from CBCA and 15 others from Heal Africa they suspected of being Congolese army soldiers or members of the pro-government Wazalendo militia.