Militants affiliated with Daesh terror group attack village in eastern DRC, leaving more than 20 people dead, local leaders and activists say
ADF is considered deadliest of some 120 militia groups and outlawed forces menacing DRC's deeply troubled east.
"The enemy ADF ambushed farmers at around 4 pm on Friday near the village of Enebula," local civil society leader Patrick Mukohe told the AFP news agency by phone on Saturday.Mukohe said he had counted 21 bodies of men and women at the site of the massacre, some 30 kilometres west of the town of Oicha, in North Kivu province.Local activist Janvier Kasereka Kasayirio said 22 bodies had arrived at a nearby hospital.
In a video shared on social media, and authenticated by Mukohe, a crowd surrounds the body of a man tied to a wooden frame, his throat slit.'Catastrophic situation' Since 2019, some ADF attacks in eastern DRC have been claimed by Daesh, which describes the group as its local offshoot, Daesh Central Africa Province.
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