Unidentified armed men attack mungamba and 3 FARDC soldiers believed to had died in that attack!!!

Unidentified armed men attacked Mungamba, a town on the border between Irumu and Mambasa territories more than 60 km south of Bunia in Ituri.

According to Maître Laurent Kieya of the NGO Convention for the Defense of Forest Peoples, CODEPEF which quotes the administrator of the Irumu territory, it is since the evening of Tuesday to Wednesday June 24, 2020 that the attack began .
At least 3 FARDC soldiers are believed to have died in the incident, the source said, a figure not yet confirmed by the military.

"It is since last night that we learned that there was an attack n by unidentified elements in one of the localities between the territories of Mambasa and Irumu," as he elaborated to news outlets in the territory.

For the moment, reports Maître Laurent, traffic is suspended on the national road number 04 going from Beni to Kisangani where this attacked village is located.

"The population is tumbling, commercial activities are slowing down, shops and stores have not opened," he said.

This new attack comes only a few days before the installation in the area of ​​a FARDC position following an express request from the local population.