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The rebels supported by an Islamic state killed at least 34 people in an attack on a Catholic Church in East Congo on Sunday, according to officials.
A Civil Society Leader in Komanda, in Northeast Democratic Republic of Congotold the AP news agency that the attack was believed to have been carried out by the Democratic Allies (ADF), a group of Uganda Islamic rebels.
Dieudonne Duranthabo, Coordinator of Civil Society, said: “The bodies of the victims are still in the tragedy place, and volunteers are preparing how to bury it in the mass grave that we are preparing in the Catholic Church Complex.”
He condemned the attack “in a city where all security officials were present” before adding: “We demanded military intervention as soon as possible, because we were told that the enemy was still near our city.”
Other city officials told the Reuters news agency that 38 people were killed, 15 were injured, and several others were still missing.
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Christophe Munyanderu, a human rights activist who was present at the scene at Komanda, said the shot was heard last night, but people initially thought it was a thief.
“The rebels are mainly attacking Christians who spend the night in the Catholic Church,” he said. “Unfortunately, these people are killed with machetes or bullets.”
ADF is formed by different small groups Uganda In the late 1990s following alleged dissatisfaction with former President Yoweri Museveni.
ADF has been responsible for the murder of thousands of civilians. PIC file: Reuters
In 2002, after a military attack by Uganda forces, the group moved its activities to the neighbor’s DRC, and since then responsible for the murder of thousands of civilians.
According to the 2019 report on terrorism from the US State Department, ADF has a relationship with Islamic State At the end of 2018
It happened after at least five other people were killed in an attack in the village of Machongani nearby, where the search was ongoing.
“They brought several people into bushes,” Lossa Dhekana, a civil society leader in Ituri’s province, told the AP, “we do not know their purpose or number”.
