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DR Congo: Rebels kill eight villagers in northeastern DR Congo
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KINSHASA, 11 October 2021, (TON): Rebels went on a rampage in villages around the northeastern DR Congo city of Beni at the weekend, killing at least eight people and abducting many more, local officials said.
The first attacks occurred overnight Friday in the villages of Mbingi and Mapasana.
Kinos Katuo, the head of a civil society body said "there we had four people killed, seven motorbikes and several houses torched, and the kidnapping of several people.”
He said the victims were shot dead or hacked to death.
Sunday morning the rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked the nearby village of Mangazi, he said, noting that a rebel was killed as the army repelled the assault.
Katuo said “the rebels moved on to the villages of Matekelambi and Mabuo, where the death toll stands at four, with "many others missing,".
No military source was available Sunday to confirm his account.
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