According to local authorities, more than 50 people were detained this week in the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo who were thought to have been engaged in the murder of 13 villagers with a white weapon.
Government spokesman Patrick Moyaya had confirmed on Monday that the conflict that broke out in June in the Mai Nadby County between Attiti Tikka and Yaka, which was initially caused by a dispute over customary taxes, caused the killing of more than 180 people.
He continued by saying that the security services, who are still conducting “combing operations,” have the situation “under control.”
” But on Tuesday morning, people attacked the village of Kisia Camulu in the Bagata area of the Koelo region, and Blassid Mukoa, a civil society in Coelho, said that they came from the nearby May Nadumbi and killed 13 people from different women, including two women.
They also pillaged livestock herds and agricultural goods, Mokoa continued.
He noted that on Wednesday and Thursday, “the Coello Regional Government sent soldiers and two cops to 56” suspected attackers.
Authorities previously expressed scepticism about outside intervention intended to disrupt the normally calm area. On Monday, Patrick Moyaya declared that an investigation is in progress.
Thousands of people were displaced as a result of the fighting. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugee Affairs put the total number of displaced individuals at 27,000, of whom 2,600 had sought safety in Congo Brazzaville, a country nearby.
the detention of around 50 persons suspected of killing 13 villagers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s western region
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