11 people killed in 2 attacks in Congo

SANAA, Feb. 15 (YPA) – Local authorities confirmed that 11 people, including a child, were killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Sunday, when rebels attacked two military sites in the southeastern city of Lubumbashi, a mining center.
“The government forces managed to repel the two attacks launched by dozens of militants, and the situation is now under complete control,” the regional interior minister, Moise Mbanga, said in a video statement.

Mbanga added, “The confrontations resulted in the killing of three soldiers, seven militants, and a ten-year-old girl,” according to Reuters.

Lubumbashi is the second largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the capital of the mineral-rich Haut Katanga province, where mining companies such as Ivanhoe and MMG Limited operate there.

The attacks followed an incursion into Lubumbashi by pro-independence rebels in September in which they slaughtered two policemen and killed a soldier while trying to take control of strategic buildings before government forces could repel them.