AFP, BENI, Democratic Republic of the CongoMilitants killed 20 people, most of them hacked to death, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DR Congo) eastern Beni region in the latest attack by an armed group blamed for massacres that have sparked angry protests. Local officials said that fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an Islamist militia originally from neighboring Uganda, on Sunday attacked Apetina-Sana, west of Oicha, the chief administrative town in Beni region. “There was an incursion in Apetina-Sana by the ADF last night,” Beni administrator Donat Kibwana said. “[They] hacked 18 civilians to death.”Local officials later found two more bodies during a search after the attack, bringing the total to 20. In a separate incident in the eastern DR Congo on Monday, “armed bandits” attacked a base used by a Chinese-owned gold mine, killing four people, the Congolese armed forces said.
