About 60 people living in a camp for the homeless have been killed in a brutal overnight attack in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
At around 02:00 local time, men armed with guns and machetes raided Plaine Savo, set up for those forced to flee their homes in the province of Ituri because of inter-ethnic conflict.
The local chief said most of the victims were women and children. Many of them had their throats slit.
“I first heard cries when I was still in bed. Then several minutes of gunshots. I fled and I saw torches and people crying for help,” a camp resident told the Reuters news agency.
Another 40 people have been injured, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), which provides aid to the camp.
The Codeco militia has been blamed for the massacre.
