The death
toll from Thursday’s attack by Islamic extremists on villagers in eastern Congo
has risen to nineteen.
The new
death toll, which includes a pregnant woman, were killed with machetes in a
region of the Democratic Republic of Congo that has been repeatedly attacked by
the Ugandan based Islamic extremist rebel group known at the Allied Democratic
Forces (ADF) and National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU).
Nine of the
victims were beheaded.
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| Fighters from the NALU |
The attack happened
in Mbau, around 30 kilometres from the town of Beni in DR Congo's eastern North
Kivu province.
North Kivu
borders Uganda and Rwanda.
The rebels,
who have been active in eastern DR Congo since being driven out of their
homeland in 1995, are suspected of a spate of machete massacres in the Beni
area since late last year that have killed around 300.