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At least 13 dead in new massacre near east DR Congo's Beni: local govt, UN

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AFP Beni (DR Congo)
Last Updated : Nov 27 2019 | 8:20 PM IST

At least 13 people were killed in a new massacre near the eastern DR Congo city of Beni, blamed on a notorious militia, a local official and a UN source said.

"We have the figure of 13 killed at dawn," a spokesman for the UN mission in the country, MONUSCO, told AFP, while local administrator Donat Kibwana said by telephone that 14 bodies had arrived at a morgue north of the city.

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First Published: Nov 27 2019 | 8:20 PM IST

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