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DRC: more than 30 bodies found in the Beni region, the ADF armed group accused

11/17/2020, 11:05:19 PM


More than 30 bodies were found in two stages in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, provincial authorities and experts said on Tuesday (October 17th) in the Beni region where 811 people have been killed since October 31, 2019. Read also: DRC: at least 19 dead in several days of clashes Twenty-nine bodies " previously executed en masse " on an unspecified date were first found in th

More than 30 bodies were found in two stages in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, provincial authorities and experts said on Tuesday (October 17th) in the Beni region where 811 people have been killed since October 31, 2019.

Read also: DRC: at least 19 dead in several days of clashes

Twenty-nine bodies "

previously executed en masse

" on an unspecified date were first found in the Virunga park, said the Minister of the Interior of North Kivu Jean-Bosco Sebishimbo, who accused the group. armed ADF. The results were taken up by experts from the Kivu Security Barometer (KST). Six to seven bodies of civilians killed Tuesday morning were also found elsewhere in the same region, other local sources reported.