More than Thirty-Five people including women and children were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern province of South Kivu on Saturday morning in an attack that the regional governor blamed on a dispute over cattle.
The victims, who included several pregnant women, had been shot, stabbed or burned inside their homes. A Reuters cameraman on the scene counted 37 bodies, some of them lying inside a village church.
“It is Congolese who have carried out these attacks. It was about a dispute over cows,” South Kivu governor Marcellin Cishambo told Reuters. “The problem is that everyone in this area carries a weapon.”
He gave a lower estimate of 27 for the number of dead.
South Kivu, a mountainous region rich in minerals including gold, is home to members of tribe who fled neighboring Burundi after the end of a civil war in 2005.
Some locals from the Congolese Bafuliru tribe blamed rebels from Burundi’s National Liberation Forces(FNL) for the attacks.
The Congolese government has said it plans to target foreign rebels operating in its eastern region after the defeat of the M23 rebel group late last year
Bamwisho mwabusha intulubundi.
Mukwate ko liniency bonse mukwateko liniency.
Zambia is a peaceful state lyonse ndalanda efi,epúlogulamu ze bige iyo yaishibikwa akale.
silly idiots..why kill each other?
Congo y y?
TB Joshua saw it coming.
We are living in the last days people repent.
Mwebantu ifwe kuno ku Lumwana kuli Tremor (shock waves), can somebody tell us what is going on? For 2 days and 2 nights now, the shock waves are starting with a big bang then the ground shakes, the houses shake as well. We are so scared! Please help us know what is happening?!