GOMA: Unidentified assailants stabbed 12 patients in their hospital beds in the restive DR Congo city of Goma, with fears it was the work of Ugandan Islamist rebels, officials said on Tuesday. “It is the first time we have seen patients being stabbed in health facilities in Goma,” said Etienne Kambale, civil society rapporteur in North Kivu province, of which Goma is the capital. Beni lies about 250 kilometres (150 miles) north of Goma. Congolese authorities and the UN mission in DR Congo, MONUSCO, accuse the ADF of killing more than 700 civilians as well as combatants in the Beni region since 2014. The group is also blamed for the killing of 14 UN peacekeepers last month, the biggest single such loss in 25 years.

Source: New Strait Times February 06, 2018 11:48 UTC