Biodun Iginla, BBC News

Biodun Iginla, BBC News

Saturday, February 18, 2017

25 civilians beheaded in DR Congo ethnic attack: official


by Lisa Jacob and Biodun Iginla, France24, Goma  (DR CONGO)


    © AFP/File | Militiamen from DR Congo's Nande ethnic group have beheaded 25 civilians in the country's violence-torn east, a local official said Saturday

    GOMA (DR CONGO) - 
    Militiamen from DR Congo's Nande ethnic group have beheaded 25 civilians in the country's violence-torn east, a local official said Saturday.
    "In total 25 people were killed, decapitated by machete by the Mai-Mai Mazembe in and around the village of Kyaghala," Francis Bakundakabo, the local representative of the governor of North Kivu province, told AFP, adding: "All of these people were Hutu civilians."

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