Seven civilians, 3 soldiers killed in DR Congo attack: army
Thursday 10/January/2019 - 01:31 PM
Seven civilians and three soldiers were killed in
the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday when a militia attacked a
military post in the restive east of the country, the army said.
The attack, in Beni region, was carried out by the
Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a rebel group operating near the border with
Uganda, said Captain Mak Hazukay, a local army spokesman.
He said “an army post was targetted by the ADF
attack this morning. Three soldiers and seven civilians have been killed.
Another two soldiers were wounded,” The Independent reported on Thursday.
The attack was in North Kivu province in the DR
Congo’s east, where the ADF has been blamed for killing hundreds of civilians
since 2014, and 15 Tanzanian peacekeepers in 2017.
