Alleged Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militants have killed not less than 40 people in twin attacks at the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to local officials on Thursday, 9 March.
The ADF is one of the deadliest armed militias in Eastern Congo, alleged of having slaughtered thousands of civilians.
According to official reports, the group had stormed the neighbouring villages of Mukondi and Mausa, in the Beni territory of North Kivu province Wednesday evening, March 8, and in the early hours of Thursday, March 9.
Meanwhile, a local administrator, Kalunga Meso had said that people had been rounded up and executed.
Meso had told reporters that 38 people had been killed in Mukondi and eight in Mausa, but he had stressed that the death toll was provisional.
