{"id":23183,"date":"2021-12-18T14:38:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T14:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=23183"},"modified":"2021-12-18T13:54:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T13:54:55","slug":"embattled-adf-rebels-kill-8-civilians-in-eastern-dr-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/embattled-adf-rebels-kill-8-civilians-in-eastern-dr-congo","title":{"rendered":"Embattled ADF rebels kill 8 civilians in eastern DR Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>At least eight civilians have been killed in attacks by ADF rebels fleeing a Congolese-Ugandan military operation against them in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a colonel and activist said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As they fled the joint Congolese-Ugandan operation, ADF fighters killed three civilians in Mahu&#8221; village Thursday, Colonel Matadi Munyapande, a military commander in the eastern province of Ituri, said.<\/p>\n<p>In the village of Lukaya, &#8220;they ambushed a truck and killed five civilians&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>There had been attacks in other villages, but it was not immediately clear if there had been casualties, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Mambo Ndungo, a member of civil society in Ituri&#8217;s town of Mambasa, put the death toll of attacks in surrounding villages much higher.<\/p>\n<p>He said five had been killed in Mahu, five more in Lukaya, five in Ilimba, and five in Mausi. 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At least eight civilians have been killed in attacks by ADF rebels fleeing a Congolese-Ugandan military operation against them in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a colonel and activist said Friday. &#8220;As they fled the joint Congolese-Ugandan operation, ADF fighters killed three civilians in Mahu&#8221; village Thursday, Colonel Matadi Munyapande, a military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":23182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-23183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Embattled ADF rebels kill 8 civilians in eastern DR Congo - 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