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DR Congo Rebels Kill 17 Civilians, Says Civil Society

Seventeen people died Friday during a militia attack on a village in northeastern DR Congo, a local civil society head announced, IgbereTV reports 

Gunmen from the feared CODECO militia stormed Mbidjo in Ituri province’s Djugu territory during the morning, said Jules Uwechi, chairman of the village’s civil society group.

“They opened fire, set houses ablaze and pillaged the property of villagers… I myself narrowly escaped,” Uwechi said in the provincial capital Bunia.

“When we went back we found 17 people had been killed — seven women, eight men and two children

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