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Rebels killed seven people and kidnapped a nurse during an attack overnight in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, targeting two health centres, local sources said Thursday.
“They even killed sick people,” Norbert Muhindo, a nurse at the referral clinic in the town of Maboya, in the Beni territory of North Kivu province, told AFP.
The rebels belonged to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a movement presented by the jihadist organisation Islamic State as its affiliate in Central Africa, Muhindo said.
The raiders arrived in Maboya “around midnight”, he declared, adding: “There were many of them. They said ‘We want war’.”
The attackers first set fire to the health centre, where they killed three people, before heading into the centre of the town, where three more killings were reported.
Muhindo said they moved on to “the Tinge hospital owned by the Protestant community”, about 1.5 kilometres (almost a mile) from the Maboya health centre.
At Tinge, “they killed a sentry and took a nurse with them,” he said.
Roger Wangeve, president of the civil society of the Bashu chiefdom (an administrative body), confirmed the incursion, blaming “ADF rebels” who “burned the Tinge hospital and the Maboya referral health centre”.
According to Wangeve, the rebel force later “burned and looted villages”….
The ADF, which originated in western Uganda, is accused of massacres of civilians in the east of the DRC and jihadist attacks at the end of 2021 in Uganda….
Rebels killed seven people and kidnapped a nurse during an attack overnight in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, targeting two health centres, local sources said Thursday.
“They even killed sick people,” Norbert Muhindo, a nurse at the referral clinic in the town of Maboya, in the Beni territory of North Kivu province, told AFP.
The rebels belonged to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a movement presented by the jihadist organisation Islamic State as its affiliate in Central Africa, Muhindo said.
The raiders arrived in Maboya “around midnight”, he declared, adding: “There were many of them. They said ‘We want war’.”
The attackers first set fire to the health centre, where they killed three people, before heading into the centre of the town, where three more killings were reported.
Muhindo said they moved on to “the Tinge hospital owned by the Protestant community”, about 1.5 kilometres (almost a mile) from the Maboya health centre.
At Tinge, “they killed a sentry and took a nurse with them,” he said.
Roger Wangeve, president of the civil society of the Bashu chiefdom (an administrative body), confirmed the incursion, blaming “ADF rebels” who “burned the Tinge hospital and the Maboya referral health centre”.
According to Wangeve, the rebel force later “burned and looted villages”….
The ADF, which originated in western Uganda, is accused of massacres of civilians in the east of the DRC and jihadist attacks at the end of 2021 in Uganda….
