Thursday, October 29, 2020

  Eighteen (18) people died in a new attack attributed to rebels of Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in the town of Baeti, nearly 20 kilometers west of Oïcha, capital of Beni -territoire (North Kivu), on the evening of Wednesday, October 28, 2020. Civil society in Mamove which delivers the information, explains however that this assessment is still provisional. It indicates that besides the dead, many houses including churches were set on fire by the attackers. “There was an attack around 7pm (Wednesday). Our sources speak of 18 people killed. We are waiting for the end of the research to have a final assessment, ”said Kinos Katuo, president of said civil society. This attack is the nth to be recorded in the entity. In eastern DRC, more than 3,000 people have already died in carnage attributed to the ADF since 2014, according to several reports from citizen organizations in the region.

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