Rebels in eastern Congo affiliated with the Islamic State group killed at least 60 people in an attack overnight, an official said Tuesday.
The attack was carried by the Allied Democratic Force, or ADF, in Ntoyo, North Kivu, after residents gathered at a burial.
“There were about 10 of them. I saw machetes. They told people to gather in one place and started cutting them. I listened to people screaming and I fainted,” a survivor who was present at the burial told The Associated Press.
She requested anonymity out of fear of reprisal.
The attack caused around 60 deaths, said Col. Alain Kiwewa, a local administrator of the Lubero territory, where Ntoyo is located. He added that the final toll is not yet known “because the territory has just deployed services to the area to count the number of beheaded people.
The region is beset by a set of complex conflicts,
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