More than 12 civilians were killed by members of a notorious rebel group in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Saturday, the army and Red Cross said. After the attack early Saturday, in the Beni region in North Kivu province, soldiers pursued the attackers and "neutralized seven ADF" and captured another, Mualushayi said. Local Red Cross head Philippe Bonane put the civilian death toll at 21-24 and was supervising the transfer of bodies to the morgue. On Friday another Red Cross representative said that soldiers in the neighboring Ituri province had found 17 decapitated bodies, also believed to be victims of the ADF. Despite this, the authorities have been unable to stop the massacres regularly carried out on civilians

Source: Ethiopian News May 28, 2022 20:26 UTC