DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: The FARDC, or Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has said that it is looking into the killings of 13 people, including patients receiving medical attention in a clinic in Lume, a neighbourhood in the Beni region of North Kivu. As per the reports, the people were murdered on July 7.
Four patients and three infants are among the 13 deceased.
The terrorists who blocked the highway also destroyed several homes.
Isse Miyambo Mwangaza, the council mayor, claimed that the attack, which began at 9 p.m., showed that the deceased were slaughtered in quarters.
The most prominent healthcare facility in Beni territory is Lume Health Center. Kile Bwenge, the health centre director, revealed to reporters that the gunmen killed three infants and four other people inside the building.
He claimed that the centre’s four buildings had burned down and added that several caregivers for patients, including one nurse, had gone missing.
Four further people were also slain by machetes in the neighbouring community of Kidolo.
The Dido faction of the Mai-Mai militia, according to Captain Anthony Mwalushayi, the military spokesperson in Beni, was in charge of the attack.
Gilbert Kabanda, the Minister of National Defense and Ex-Servicemen of the Democratic Republic of the Congo discussed the force’s offensive against RDF soldiers and M23 rebels operating in the provinces of Ituri and North Kivu during the 61st ministerial council meeting.
“Mention was also made of the last massacre, notably that of Lume, where ten of our compatriots lost their lives,” Patrick Muyaya, the government spokesperson, mourned.
“Investigations have been ordered, and our armed forces are on the track of those who perpetrated the massacre.”
During the ministerial council meeting, Muyaya spoke. According to quotes from the meeting, the nation’s army had killed three Mai-Mai militants during the raid.
Contrary to the account given by a military spokesman in Beni, the civil society said the attack was carried out by Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels.
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