Eleven Congolese were killed Friday by armed men in the town of Kashuno, between Kalonge and Nindja in Kabare territory in South Kivu.
According to the commander of the 1002nd regiment of FARDC and stakeholders from civil society, the killers were FDLR fighters.
FARDC based in the region have announced that this massacre occurred away from their positions, which does not allow them to react.
The victims were among a group of 15 hawkers who went to the market Bitara from Kalonge. The attackers, using both firearms and knives, robbed them of all their property before killing them one after another.
One of the survivors was injured. He is under medical supervision at the General Staff of the FARDC 1002nd regiment.
Soldiers of the regular army embarked in pursuit of the attackers in the vast forest of Kahuzi Biega, but until then, there is no trace of suspected Rwandan Hutu combatants, according to the commander of the 1002nd regiment.
He said that the ambush took place in 3 hours walk from the FARDC positions. Which has not allowed his troops to prevent or limit damage.
Family members of victims have recovered their bodies and buried them at home in Kalonge Saturday morning.
At the beginning of August, eighteen persons including four women and five children were abducted in their fields in the forests devices Byonga in Mwenga, by suspected FDLR fighters.
In mid-July, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), combined with Mai Mai militia Nyatura, killed seven people stabbed to death and seriously injured seven others in the locality of Nyaluchangi, Ufamandu 1, in Kalehe territory (South Kivu).
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