The attackers also set fire to a health facility and looted medicine, repeating a pattern already observed in Mangina less than two weeks ago.
In the Beni region, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, between 10 and 15 civilians have been victims of new attacks perpetrated by ADF rebels affiliated with the Islamic State group since Friday, according to local sources.
Pépin Kavota, president of civil society in Beni, urged the authorities to put an end to this violence, deploring that most of the victims had been beheaded.
ADF attacks have intensified in recent weeks in the region and in the neighboring province of Ituri.
Antoine Kambale, deputy head of the Sayo district in Mulekera, testified to the exasperation of residents in the face of repeated attacks, noting that on Friday, 14 civilians were killed in different places in the district, and that a new attack occurred during the night from Saturday to Sunday caused the deaths of two other people, including a woman and a police officer.
The attackers also set fire to a health facility and looted medicine, repeating a pattern already observed in Mangina less than two weeks ago, where at least 10 people were killed.
Colonel Ngongo Mayanga, mayor of Mulekera, indicated that the provisional toll from these new attacks exceeded 10 civilians killed, specifying that the army was deploying in large numbers to face this persistent threat.
