In 2021 Suspected Islamist militants killed 16 people in two rural towns in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official.
On Monday January 9, 2023 Suspected CODECO militants killed at least 16 civilians over the weekend in eastern DR Congo’s troubled Ituri province, local sources said.
The attack occurred early Sunday afternoon in Djugu territory, according to Charite Banza, a civil society leader in the area.
He added that CODECO fighters torched houses in three separate villages and killed 16 people, noting that the death toll was provisional.
A humanitarian worker in the area, who declined to be named, also said 16 bodies had been discovered in the wake of the attack.
However, the Congolese army spokesman in Ituri, Lieutenant Jules Ngongo, said four civilians had been killed in Sunday’s clashes, as well as one soldier and two militants.
