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At least 20 people have been killed this week in an attack in western DR Congo, local officials said on Wednesday, where ethnic violence has been raging for months.

The massacre occurred in the village of Boku, in Kwamouth, a region of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Mai-ndombe province, which has seen fighting between the Yaka and Teke people since June.

On Monday, unidentified assailants armed with rifles attacked the Teke village, according to Nkete Mboma Butu, a civil-society representative in Kwamouth. Twenty people died the attack, he said. “The inhabitants defended themselves with machetes,” Butu added.