{"id":58607,"date":"2023-10-29T15:25:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T15:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=58607"},"modified":"2023-10-29T14:55:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-29T14:55:47","slug":"ugandan-soldiers-among-five-dead-in-dr-congo-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/ugandan-soldiers-among-five-dead-in-dr-congo-attack","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan soldiers among five dead in DR Congo attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span><b>Rebels backed by the Islamic State group have killed two Ugandan soldiers in an attack that also left two civilians and a suspected assailant dead in eastern DR Congo, authorities said Saturday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Two truck drivers, a Kenyan and a Congolese, were shot dead Friday night by IS-affiliated Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) at a car park in Kasindi, Beni territory, said Barthelemy Kambale, a North Kivu provincial civil servant.<\/p>\n<p>A fifth dead body was assumed to be an assailant, he told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic State group claimed the attack in a statement posted to Telegram Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Kasindi was the scene of a Pentecostal church bombing blamed on the ADF which killed about 15 people in January, and for which IS claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) launched a joint offensive in 2021 against the ADF to drive the militants out of their Congolese strongholds, but attacks have continued.<\/p>\n<p>Originally fielding mainly Muslim Ugandan rebels, the ADF gained a foothold in the region in the 1990s and are accused of slaughtering thousands of civilians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ADF enemy arrived about 22:30 (2030 GMT), our forces blocked the road against the rebels,&#8221; said Kambale, adding that &#8220;two Ugandan soldiers died during the operation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Three vehicles were burnt out, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are angry, they burned the body of a dead ADF,&#8221; said a local civil society representative, asking not to be named.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-six civilians died overnight Monday-Tuesday in a massacre attributed to the ADF near Oicha town, also in Beni territory, which has been the epicentre of the years-long rampage by the ADF, called Islamic State Central Africa Province by IS.<\/p>\n<p>In Uganda, police said the ADF were behind the murder of a honeymoon couple and their safari guide in the nation&#8217;s Queen Elizabeth National Park on October 17. 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