GOMA: Militants in eastern Congo affiliated with the Daesh group killed at least 60 people in an attack overnight, an official said. The attack was carried by the Allied Democratic Force in Ntoyo, North Kivu, after residents gathered at a burial. “The ADF attack caused around 60 deaths, but the final toll will be given later this evening because the territory has just deployed services to the area to count the number of beheaded people,” Col. Alain Kiwewa, local administrator of the Lubero territory where Ntoyo is located, told The Associated Press. “There were about 10 of them.

Over 60 killed in ADF attack at burial in Ntoyo, North Kivu, with survivors recounting horrific machete killings.

The gruesome attack happened on Monday night in the town of Ntoyo, in Lubero territory, North Kivu province, local administrator Macaire Sivikunula said.

A local administrator says the majority of the victims were “killed with machetes” while others were shot.

GOMA: Militants in eastern Congo affiliated with the Daesh group killed at least 60 people in an attack overnight, an official said. The attack was carried by the Allied…

A funeral ceremony was being held in a village when the night-time assault took place, officials say.

Daesh terrorists killed 71 people in an overnight attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday. The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a group...