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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