NORTH KIVU, DR Congo
Seven people have been killed
in an attack on a displacement camp in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic
of Congo, police said Thursday.
"In the night (of
Wednesday to Thursday), bandits killed seven people in Rujagati camp for
displaced people: four men and three women," Patrick Nkundabera, head of
police in Kashuga, in Masisi territory in North Kivu province, told AFP.
"Nyatura rebels who
occupy this area are suspected of being responsible for the attack," he
added.
It's the second time the camp
has been attacked since it was opened in 2008.
It houses more than 1,700
households, mostly members of the Hutu and Hunde communities.
The DRC has some 5.3 million
internally displaced people, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and
Norwegian Refugee Council said in a report last month.
The Nyatura militia is mostly
made up of Hutu Congolese, and one of scores of armed groups that operate in
the region.
North Kivu and neighbouring
Ituri province have been placed under a "state of siege" since May
2021 in a bid to clamp down on the militia groups.
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