Five folks have been killed and a number of other others together with youngsters are lacking following a brand new assault in the Democratic Republic of Congo blamed on the infamous ADF militia, a senior official mentioned Tuesday.
“People are in a panic,” Beni district administrator Donat Kibwana told AFP, saying that the victims had been “gunned down” in the village of Mayimoya on Tuesday morning — barely a day after the area’s worst bloodbath in years.
The space in jap DRC’s North Kivu province has been prey since 2014 to assaults by the Allied Democratic Forces, a traditionally Ugandan Islamist group blamed for a string of massacres in the previous 18 months.
ADF fighters make up simply one of many 122 armed teams tallied in the nation’s east by the revered Kivu Security Tracker monitor, however they’re by far the bloodiest.
In March, Washington listed them as a “terrorist group” with ties to the jihadist Islamic State (IS) group.
Tuesday’s killings come the day after the worst massacre in eastern DRC in years, with at least 50 people killed in neighbouring Ituri province.
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