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Suspected Islamist militants kill 19 in east Congo

He said the militants kidnapped several others, who are now missing.

• March 12, 2023
Islamist militants in Congo

Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 19 people and burned a medical facility in a raid on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo early on Sunday, two regional officials and a resident said.

The attack occurred around 1:00 a.m. (2300 GMT) in the village of Kirindera in North Kivu province, just a few kilometres from another attack on a village where at least 35 people were killed last week.

The army blamed last week’s attack on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group based in eastern Congo that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State and conducts frequent raids on villages.

A nearby village resident and a local civil society member blamed Sunday’s attack on the ADF too.

“Gunfire was heard around Kirindera. The ADF arrived, they set fire to a hospital after looting it with medicines, and they set fire to a hotel,” said Sadame Patanguli, the resident.

He said the militants kidnapped several others, who are now missing.

Two regional officials confirmed the details of the burnt buildings and the death toll.

The ADF was created in Uganda before moving to eastern Congo in the 1990s and has been blamed for thousands of deaths in the last decade.

Congo’s government declared a state of siege in North Kivu and neighbouring Ituri province in 2021 to stem rampant militia violence in the country’s vast mineral-rich east.

But the killings and rebel activity have not shown any sign of abating.

(Reuters/NAN)

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