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Over 30 people were killed in attacks by suspected jihadist forces on Sunday and Monday in northeast DR Congo’s troubled Ituri province, the local Red Cross said.
Rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), one of the most notorious armed groups, “attacked the population” in two villages around Komanda, 75 kilometres south of Bunia, the capital of volatile Ituri province, said David Beiza, head of the Red Cross in Irumu territory, part of Ituri.
As well as attacking the villages of Mangusu, where 17 civilians died, and Shauri Moya, were nine were killed, the assailants also targetted a bridge over the Ituri River, killing four more, Beiza said….
According to Herabo, the rebels first entered Shauri Moya on Sunday and then Mangusu on Monday morning.
“There, the bodies of some of the 17 victims were tied up, others had their throats slit and others had been shot dead,” said Herabo, who has not visited the villages, but relied on colleagues in the area….
The ADF rebels, who are presented by the Islamic State group as its central African affiliate, have meted out extreme violence against civilians — often with machetes and other bladed weapons.
Over 30 people were killed in attacks by suspected jihadist forces on Sunday and Monday in northeast DR Congo’s troubled Ituri province, the local Red Cross said.
Rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), one of the most notorious armed groups, “attacked the population” in two villages around Komanda, 75 kilometres south of Bunia, the capital of volatile Ituri province, said David Beiza, head of the Red Cross in Irumu territory, part of Ituri.
As well as attacking the villages of Mangusu, where 17 civilians died, and Shauri Moya, were nine were killed, the assailants also targetted a bridge over the Ituri River, killing four more, Beiza said….
According to Herabo, the rebels first entered Shauri Moya on Sunday and then Mangusu on Monday morning.
“There, the bodies of some of the 17 victims were tied up, others had their throats slit and others had been shot dead,” said Herabo, who has not visited the villages, but relied on colleagues in the area….
The ADF rebels, who are presented by the Islamic State group as its central African affiliate, have meted out extreme violence against civilians — often with machetes and other bladed weapons.
