Around 70 bodies, including those of women, children and elderly people, were discovered on Feb. 15 in a church building in the village of Maiba, in Lubero territory in North Kivu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Civil services say these people – who were found, bound and decapitated – were killed with knives. No armed group has claimed responsibility for the killing, but there is growing suspicion that the massacre was carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) – a militia allied to the Islamic State.
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