CODECO rebel attack kills 15 people in eastern DRC
Al Jazeera
Violence has been on the rise in the conflict-hit eastern DR Congo in recent weeks as multiple armed groups wreak havoc.
Armed rebels have killed 15 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled Ituri province, local sources said on Sunday, in the second such attack in days.
The sources said the CODECO (Cooperative for the Development of the Congo) militia, which claims to defend the interests of the Lendu ethnic group, again targeted people from the rival Hema tribe.
CODECO fighters ambushed users of a road near the village of Tali where they stopped 15 people, including one woman, on Saturday afternoon, said Jules Tsuba, a civil society leader in Djugu, a town in the area.
The militiamen tied them up and undressed them before killing them while some victims “had their throats cut, others were shot dead”, he said.
According to a humanitarian source, “the bodies of the victims bear the marks of torture”.
