Nine people, including eight children, have been killed in an attack by armed men on a village in Iturife province in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, local sources said Tuesday.
The attack targeted the village of Azimini, Monday, at about five o’clock.
“Tuesday morning, we found the bodies of nine civilians, including eight children and an elderly woman,” local official Jeremy Obio Ndjaba told AFP.
He added that there were “three critical injuries and two people missing.”
“The perpetrators of this massacre are well known,” he said.
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