Children among victims of DR Congo massacre

Fourteen civilians, many of them children, have been killed in an attack on a camp for displaced people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Militants struck in Ituri in the east of the country, Kivu Security Tracker, a monitor of violence in the conflicttorn region, said yesterday. It said fighters from the armed group Co-operative for the Development of the Congo were believed to be behind the attack. Considered one of the deadliest militias in the east of the country, it has been blamed for several ethnic massacres. Jules Tsuba, president of a civil society association, said most of the victims of Monday’s attack were children. “It’s shocking to see children chopped up by machetes,” he told AFP.