Truce smashed

Ngarama (Reuter) - Rwanda rebels said they had killed 250 government troops in an ambush on a convoy only hours after declaring a truce.

In the capital, Kigali, government sources said 500,000 people had fled fighting in the north of the country. Paul Kagame, military chief of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, said his guerrillas attacked four buses ferrying reinforcements to the besieged north-western town of Ruhengeri. 'We completely destroyed three buses and killed around 250 government troops.'