Security analysts and a local community leader report that at least 46 people, half of them children, were killed in a militia attack on a camp for displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Richard Dheda, an official of the local administration for Bahema Badjere in Djugu territory, told AFP that a militia group involved in numerous ethnic killings in the area attacked the camp in northeastern Ituri province overnight from Sunday to Monday,
The Kivu Security Tracker (KST), a network of observers based in DRC’s restive east, counted “at least 46” dead in the Lala camp, just as a community leader, Desire Malodra, gave the same death toll of 46, adding that 23 of them were children, as a search for survivors continues.
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After a decade of calm, the conflict between the Hema and Lendu communities rekindled in 2017, resulting in thousands of deaths and forcing more than 1.5 million people from their homes.
Much of eastern DR Congo is plagued by dozens of armed groups, a legacy of regional wars that flared in the 1990s and 2000s.
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