A suicide bomber has killed at least five people and injured 13 others when a car bomb exploded at an Iraqi police recruiting center at Kisak, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. jihadist organization Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).
The ADF, considered the most dangerous organization in the DRC, is also being blamed by Ugandan authorities for recent attacks on its territory, for which Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility. The IK presents the ADF as its representative in the “province” of its “caliphate” in Central Africa, calling it the Islamic State in Central Africa (IKKA).
“The suicide bomber, who was prevented from entering the crowded bar by the guards, detonated the bomb at the entrance. “The death toll has risen to six, including a suicide bomber, and 13 wounded have been taken to hospital,” said Lt. Gen. Sylvain Ekenge, a spokesman for the North Kivu military government.
Minutes after the blast, a French Agency correspondent identified three dismembered corpses. Benny City Hall has urged residents to stay indoors for fear of further attacks.
A source close to the Benny municipal authorities said that “two were children” among the dead.
Among the injured are two deputy mayors, according to the same source. The “ADF terrorists” have now “activated their dormant nuclei in the city of Benny” to carry out attacks “against peaceful civilians”, always according to the municipal authorities.
The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a restaurant in Inbox, a restaurant and restaurant, where about 30 people were celebrating Christmas, according to two eyewitnesses.
The provinces of North Kivu and Ituri have been under siege since May, an excellent measure that gives the military supremacy but has so far not allowed an end to the activities of the armed groups there.
Large-scale joint operations of the DRC and Ugandan armed forces have been conducting large-scale joint operations in the two provinces since November 30 against ADF positions.
Initially, the group was an Ugandan-majority Muslim-majority rebel group opposed to President Yueri Museveni.
It settled in the DRC in 1995 and has now become one of the deadliest armed groups in the region. She has been blamed for more than a thousand deaths in the past decade, as well as for bombings in Kampala, the capital of Uganda.
On March 11, the United States added the ADF to its list of “terrorist organizations”, stressing that it was linked to the Islamic State.
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