Five individuals were killed and four others injured on Friday in an assault on an armed force position in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), an official source has uncovered. The dead contain two Congolese fighters and three militiamen.
The armed force's representative in the district, Captain Mak Hazukay, affirmed the assault and loss figures saying that the militiamen "were looking to recuperate weapons and ammo" in the warehouses of the Army General Staff.
"A Mayi-Mayi amass assaulted the FARDC (Congolese armed force) position in Kirumba, with a temporary record of three slaughtered maï-maï, two FARDC fighters murdered and four injured," said Julien Paluku, legislative head of North Kivu territory where Kirumba is found.
Situated around 180 km north of Goma, capital of North Kivu, Kirumba is a region in the region of Lubero, flanking that of Beni where more than 700 regular folks have died in a progression of slaughters since October 2014. The Mayi-Mayi local armies are "self-preservation" bunches generally constituted on an ethnic premise.
Amid the Second Congo War (1998-2003), a significant number of these gatherings were furnished by the legislature to battle the Ugandan or Rwandan trespassers. A few, eminently in North Kivu, a district torn by clashes for over a quarter century, never incapacitated.
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