A total of 31 attackers were killed Saturday in the region of Lubumbashi, the second city of the Democratic Republic of Congo, by the security forces who repelled several incursions by militiamen loyal to a former warlord, an NGO said on Sunday. .
Human rights association Justicia counts "seven dead among assailants" in Lubumbashi as well as one killed police officer, 13 assailants killed in Likasi, nine in Kasumbalesa, the border town with Zambia, and two in Bunkeya , another locality in this region of mining Katanga, the world's largest cobalt reserve.
The NGO Justicia denounces " a human butchery " and accuses the army of having " opened fire without warning on these militiamen ", "summarily armed with knives and some weapons of war". The NGO also condemns the " attempted destabilization " carried out by the militiamen.
