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opened fire on all those around him.... A dozen people died," Ituri army spokesman Jules Ngongo

BUNIA, Democratic Republic of Congo( Reuters)-The death toll from an attack in a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province rose to 25 on Sunday, a local chief and civil society leader said, after a government spokesman and a U.N. document confirmed the attack on Saturday. The Cooperative for the Development of the Congo( CODECO) group, one of many militias operating in the conflict-ridden east, carried out the killings in the village of Galayi, 70 km( 45 miles) northwest o

One said a local hospital had been overwhelmed by the number of victims. Reuters was not able to reach CODECO for comment. The group has built a reputation for targeting civilians, killing 18 people at a church last month and another 60 at a displaced persons camp in February. Violence is a daily occurrence in Congo’s vast eastern provinces, where groups like CODECO skirmish with other militias including a local Islamic State affiliate. Congo’s government declared martial law in Ituri and neighb

The ADF is a Ugandan militia that has been active in eastern Congo since the 1990s and has killed scores of civilians in village raids." The situation remains tense in Mangusu, an area two kilometres( 1.24 miles) from Komanda.... The enemy killed 17 civilians there before burning down houses and looting many of the residents' belongings," said Moise Ucini, a representative of the governor in Komanda, on Monday. The assailants also killed three people in the nearby localities of Shauri Moya and