KINSHASA, Congo — At the very least 21 individuals had been killed on Sunday in an assault on church premises in jap Congo by Islamic State-backed rebels, in response to a civil society chief.
The assault was carried out by members of the Allied Democratic Power (ADF) round 1 a.m. contained in the premises of a Catholic church in jap Congo’s Komanda. A number of homes and retailers had been additionally burnt.
“Greater than 21 individuals had been shot useless inside and outdoors and we have now recorded at the very least three charred our bodies and several other homes burned. However the search is constant,” Dieudonne Duranthabo, a civil society coordinator in Komnada, instructed The Related Press.
A spokesperson for the Congolese military in Ituri province, the place Komanda is situated, confirmed 10 useless.
“What we all know this morning is that there was an incursion by armed males with machetes right into a church not removed from Komanda, the place about 10 individuals had been killed and massacred and a few retailers had been set on hearth,” Lt. Jules Ngongo, the DRC Military’s spokesperson in Ituri, mentioned.
The ADF, with ties with the Islamic State, is a insurgent group that operates within the borderland between Uganda and DRC, has routinely performed assaults towards civilian populations for greater than a decade.