46 killed in attack on camp for displaced people in Congo

WORLD, June 13 (YPA) – At least forty-six people have been killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after gunmen attacked a camp housing internally displaced person in Ituri province

According to a local TV in the Republic, at least 46 people were killed in the attack on the Lala displacement camp, included 23 children.

A community leader Desire Malodra gave the same death toll of 46, adding that 23 of them were children.

The leader added that the toll was still provisional as “the search continues” for victims.

He accused the CODECO militia of carrying out the attack, which took place at two in the morning.

“They began to fire shots, many people were burned to death in their homes, others were killed by machete,” Malodra said.

For its part, the CODECO militia claims to protect the Lendu community from another ethnic group, the Hema, as well as the DR Congo army.

E.M