“We have 20 people killed for now and 17 wounded, some of them admitted to hospital.”
Women and children were among at least 20 civilians murdered in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, local officials told AFP on Sunday.
Local authorities blamed the Cooperative for the Development of Congo for the massacre, one of dozens of armed groups spread across the conflict-wracked country.Its members are mainly drawn from the Lendu ethnic group, who are predominantly farmers, and clash repeatedly with the Hema community of traders and herders in Ituri — a region rich in gold and oil.
According to the UNHCR on May 8, the toll this year was at least 274 people killed and 200,000 who have fled the violence. In the Djugu territory, which covers more than 8,000 square kilometres , villages from both groups are interspersed and military spokesmen Jules Ngongo told AFP: “No army in the world can be everywhere in a zone like Djugu.”
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