Children among 46 killed in attack in east DR Congo

Congolese children run after a UN armoured personnel carrier

Congolese children run after a UN armoured personnel carrier at Rhoe IDP camp in Djugu, Ituri province on April 20, 2023.Codeco raids have worsened a longstanding humanitarian crisis in Ituri Province where some 3 million people are in desperate need of aid.  PHOTO | PAUL LORGERIE | REUTERS

Congolese militia group, the Cooperative for the Development of the Congo (Codeco), has killed at least 46 people, half of them children, in a new wave of terror in Djugu, Ituri, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

The bloody attack occurred on Sunday night, according to local sources who said the people killed were at an internally displaced people's camp.