A few days before Christmas, a police officer walks through a street devastated by demonstrators in Goma, Republic of the Congo. The photo does not show the location of the attack.
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The suicide attack is said to have occurred in a busy restaurant – in a province that has long been terrorized by extreme rebel groups. How many people were killed is still unclear.
B.According to official figures, an explosion in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo resulted in deaths and injuries. The government spoke on Saturday of a suicide bomber and the loss of life, without providing information on the number of victims.
Eyewitnesses reported via Twitter that the explosion on Christmas Day occurred in a busy restaurant in the city of Beni. Videos showed people lying on the floor between torn chairs and tables.
The background to the explosion was initially unclear in the evening. Beni is located in the north of the Central African state. Several rebel groups are active in the crisis-ridden province of North Kivu. According to the UN, the rebel group ADF (Allied Democratic Forces), which is linked to the Islamic State (IS), has killed more than 200 people and displaced 40,000 since the beginning of the year.
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