Over two dozen civilians killed in DR Congo rebel attack

More than two dozen civilians have been killed by militiamen in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s volatile east.
Local officials said the massacre occurred in the early hours of Saturday when Mai Mai Mazembe militiamen from the Nande ethnic group attacked civilians with machetes in a village in the country’s violence-torn eastern province of North Kivu.
“In total, 25 people were killed, decapitated by machete, by the Mai Mai Mazembe in and around the village of Kyaghala,” said Francis Bakundakabo, the local representative of the provincial governor. “All of these people were Hutu civilians.