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03-03-2018, 09:16 AM
BUNIA, DR Congo: At least 49 people were killed in a fresh outbreak of ethnic violence overnight in the Democratic Republic of Congo?s troubled Ituri province, a senior charity official said on Friday.
The latest killings were part of a cycle of unrest between the Hema and Lendu communities in the northeastern province, the government told AFP. "We have counted 49 bodies and are still searching for other bodies," said Alfred Ndrabu Buju from international Catholic charity Caritas.
"A child was admitted this morning in Drodro general hospital, with an arrow in his head," Buju added. The Interior Minister Henri Mova earlier put the death toll at 33. "The provincial governor is on his way to the site of the killings," Mova said. The violence happened in the village of Maze, some 80 kilometres north of Bunia, Ituri?s provincial capital.Witnesses told AFP the attackers were members of the Lendu community. "The attackers went into the village and committed a real massacre," local activist Banza Charite said. The violence in Ituri has left over 100 people dead since mid-December, and forced 200,000 people to flee their homes.
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The latest killings were part of a cycle of unrest between the Hema and Lendu communities in the northeastern province, the government told AFP. "We have counted 49 bodies and are still searching for other bodies," said Alfred Ndrabu Buju from international Catholic charity Caritas.
"A child was admitted this morning in Drodro general hospital, with an arrow in his head," Buju added. The Interior Minister Henri Mova earlier put the death toll at 33. "The provincial governor is on his way to the site of the killings," Mova said. The violence happened in the village of Maze, some 80 kilometres north of Bunia, Ituri?s provincial capital.Witnesses told AFP the attackers were members of the Lendu community. "The attackers went into the village and committed a real massacre," local activist Banza Charite said. The violence in Ituri has left over 100 people dead since mid-December, and forced 200,000 people to flee their homes.
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