By RFIPubliée on 04-06-2019Modified on 04-06-2019 at 23:20
At least 12 people, including seven women as well as two Congolese soldiers and one assailant, were killed in Beni between Monday night June 3 and Tuesday morning June 4, according to civil society, in a new attack by suspected ADF rebels.
The first attack took place around 9:00 pm local time on Monday night, in the Butanuka district, southeast of Beni, when a group of attackers composed of men, but also women and children, arrived. according to witnesses, to bypass a position of the Congolese army to start looting. The army and the police intervened. The clashes lasted for about an hour, according to security sources. In their escape, the attackers executed residents with machetes and firearms, according to the deputy mayor of the city.
Violence that resumed this morning around 7am, when some of the residents who fled came to see the damage and count the bodies of the victims.
Was it the same group of attackers or another group? " The first attack took place at night, some suspected rebels were hiding in ambush, " says a local authority.
But on the side of civil society, it is indignation: " How is it that the army was not able to repel all the attackers and secure the neighborhood? Kizito Bin Hangi, the president of the civil society, wonders. An outrage shared by motorcycle taxi drivers, who in the morning demonstrated in town with the dead bodies of a couple of motorcyclists who died the day before. They went to the town hall to demand a more " offensive " response from the Congolese army against the alleged ADF rebels. This demonstration blocked the main road of Beni for a large part of the day and paralyzed the activities that began timidly to resume in the late afternoon.
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