Militants killed 20 people, most of them hacked to death, in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern Beni region in the latest attack by an armed group blamed for massacres that have sparked angry protests.
Local officials said fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamist-militia originally from neighbouring Uganda, on Sunday attacked Apetina-Sana west of Oicha, the chief administrative town in Beni region.
"There was an incursion in Apetina-Sana by the ADF last night," Beni administrator Donat Kibwana told AFP. "(They) hacked 18 civilians to death."
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