The carnage took place in one of two provinces where authorities last year installed military rule in an attempt to stem the tide of violence sweeping the region.
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for Friday’s deadly attack in the village of Musundaba in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. According to the authorities, at least 20 people were killed in the attack.
“We counted at least 20 dead in Musundaba village,” the military commander in Beni, Colonel Charles Omeonga, said earlier, blaming the massacre on Muslim fighters from the ADF, a jihadist group that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State.
An activist reported seeing 22 bodies being taken to a local hospital.
A military spokesman in North Kivu province, where the village where the attack took place, said the attackers hacked the victims to death with machetes.
The carnage took place in one of two provinces where authorities last year installed military rule in an attempt to stem the tide of violence sweeping the region.
A few days ago, the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo condemned the attack attributed to ADF in Ituri province, which killed 30 people.
Source :Skai
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