Armed militants killed more than 50 civilians in the attacks on Monday in an eastern border area of the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials of the region told officials of the region on Tuesday.
Jean Vianni, head of the village’s Daziba cluster, said Kodeco was behind the terrorist attack.
Hey said that set houses filled with people on fire, ie attack with guns and matches.
“There are people injured, many are burnt in their homes,” Vienne said, put the provisional death toll to 51 and said they hope it is expected to grow.
Floribert Bayuhga, a legalist against the Dafugu region, touched a similar death of 51, stating that it included 18 children.
Provincial Army spokesman Jules Nagono said the soldiers tried to help, but it was too late to escape the massacre.
He told the Reuters News Agency by telephone, “What happened to the DJABA group is the worst in the case of our people’s deaths, and we strengthen it.”
Displaced individual ‘camp attack
Last night, the terrorists made an attack on a local camp at a local camp for the internal displaced people before the local United Nations peace force was canceled by Monusco.
Codeco is one of the innumerable militia fighting land and resources in Eastern Congo. It has often targeted the performance camps.
The Codeco Military is a loose group of Landu community fighter, accused in the past of violent attacks by the United Nations, often on the majority of HEMA community in Ituri province.
Jean-Tobi Okla, a spokesman of the United Nations Mission, said in a statement that the Peacepers were able to protect the displaced people in the camp.
“But they are limited, especially when the attackers come in large numbers, as they did not. [when attacking the nearby villages]”Okla said.
Dozens of conflict plague DRC, at least not in Kivu provinces near Ituri
East of Vishal DRC is thousands of kilometers from the Ituri capital Kinshasa.
The country has been prone to various conflicts, rebels and internal disputes for more than 30 years, not at least in the east. More than 7 million people are believed to have been internally displaced in the country.
Hence Ituri is located to the north of the provinces of North and South Kivu, which is the site of a fierce fight between Rwanda-supported M32 fighter and late Kangoli army.
The M23 has rejected a large part of the region in the east of the DRC after lifting arms at the end of 2021, with an optige recently in the fight.
Three days after a summit at Dar S Salaam in Tanzania, where African leaders appealed for a “unconditional” ceasefire in the region till Thursday, a fresh fight was reported by local sources on Tuesday. .
Edited by: Wesley Rahan
