Goma: The death toll from an attack on a Catholic church in eastern Congo by Islamic State-backed rebels has risen to 34, according to a civil society leader.
“The bodies of the victims are still at
the scene of the tragedy, and volunteers are preparing how to bury them in a mass grave that we are preparing in a compound of the Catholic church,”
Dieudonne Duranthabo, a civil society coordinator in Komanda, in the Ituri province, told The Associated Press.
At least five other people were killed in an earlier attack on the nearby village of Machongani, from where a search is ongoing.
“They took several people into the bush; we do not know their destination or their number,” Lossa Dhekana, a civil society leader in Ituri,
told the AP, the
new agency.