HT RoP : Toll From Rebel Attacks In Eastern DR Congo Rises To 29. Twenty-nine people were killed by a notorious rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo at the weekend, local sources said Tuesday.
Read it all here from AFP.............Billed by the so-called Islamic State as its local affiliate, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) have been accused of killing thousands of civilians in the region. A soldier and 28 civilians died when ADF fighters on Sunday evening attacked Masambo and three other villages in the Beni region in North Kivu province, sources said.
"Twenty-nine dead -- 28 soldiers and an army captain," Ricardo Rupande, a local civil society leader, told AFP. Some of the victims were killed in their homes and others in the bush, Winye wa Benga, the headman of Masambo village, said.
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