At least six people were killed in a new attack attributed to the armed group of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, AFP learned Monday from local sources.
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The ADF raided the night of Sunday to Monday in the village of Kelele. Balance sheet, " six dead, two women and four men, " Njiamoja Sabiti, administrative manager of Eringeti in North Kivu, told AFP. The victims were executed " with machetes and gunshots, " he said. Located 12 km from Eringeti, the village of Kelele is in the province of Ituri, on the border with the territory of the neighboring province of North Kivu.
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Njiamoja Sabiti told an AFP correspondent that he had dispatched a team to the scene of the tragedy. " The search continues and the balance sheet risks becoming heavier ". A civil society official, Bravo Vukulu, gives the same assessment. Sunday, the ADF killed 7 people in an incursion made in Kokola, about 45 km north of Beni in this part of the province of North Kivu where they are accused of the massacre of nearly 400 people since November. The ADF are at the origin of the Ugandan Muslim rebels who were fighting against the regime of Yoweri Museveni.
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They have been installed since the mid-1990s in eastern DRC, from where they have not attacked neighboring Uganda for many years. For months, the ADF have been going up more and more north, on the side of Ituri, another troubled region in the eastern part of the country.
