Suspect members of FDLR, a Rwandan rebel group based in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killed 18 civilians in a village in the volatile eastern part of the country, a local government official said.
The assailants armed with machetes attacked on Tuesday night and spoke Kinyarwanda, the main language in neighboring Rwanda, the mayor of Beni town, Jean Edmoud Masumbuko, said by phone.
Congo, almost the size of Western Europe, is the world’s largest source of cobalt and Africa’s biggest miner of copper and tin.
It’s struggled for two decades to defeat dozens of local and foreign militias in the east of the country including FDLR, some of whose leaders are linked to the perpetrators of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
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