No fewer than 30 people were murdered following an attack in the restive northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, local and UN sources have disclosed.
It was gathered that the jihadists of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) are suspected to have carried out the attack in the Ituri area on Saturday, they said.
Dieudonne Malangayi, acting chairman of the chiefdom of Walese Vonkutu, initially said 14 people died in the attack but told reporters on Monday that more bodies had since been discovered.
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‘The civilians who went to look for the bodies of the victims found 16 others in the bush, which makes 30 civilians massacred,’ said Malangayi.
A UN source confirmed that at least 30 people had died in the attack.
One civilian who helped look for bodies said the victims had mostly been attacked with machetes or shot.
Africa Daily News, New York understands that the ADF, which the United States has deemed a terrorist group, is considered the deadliest of scores of armed militias that roam the mineral-rich eastern DR Congo.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
