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21 die in machete attack in Congo

By Editor
04 February 2015   |   7:38 pm
AT least 21 people were killed overnight in the town of Mayangose in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo by machete-wielding assailants, a civil society leader said Wednesday.   “They surprised the peasants who were sleeping in their houses,” Omar Kavota, a spokesman for the Civil Society of North Kivu said by telephone from the nearby…

AT least 21 people were killed overnight in the town of Mayangose in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo by machete-wielding assailants, a civil society leader said Wednesday.

  “They surprised the peasants who were sleeping in their houses,” Omar Kavota, a spokesman for the Civil Society of North Kivu said by telephone from the nearby hub of Beni. “They killed 14 men and seven women, but this time, they spared the young children.”

  The United Nations (UN) mission in the country said on its Twitter feed that unidentified attackers had massacred civilians at Mayangose, without giving a death toll.

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