BENI, December 25 (Reuters) – A suicide bombing in a restaurant in Beni, a town in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), killed five people as well as the perpetrator. attack, declared the mayor of Beni.
This attack comes amid mounting violence in the region where the Congolese and Ugandan armed forces have launched an offensive against Islamist movements.
“There were six people killed in the explosion, plus the perpetrator, six in total,” mayor Narcisse Muteba Kashale told Reuters.
The attack was not immediately claimed.
The DRC and neighboring Uganda have been fighting since the end of November in the region the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) militia, affiliated with the Islamic State group. (Report Erikas Mwisi Kambale, Stanis Bujakera Tshiamala, Fiston Mahamba and Elodie Toto; edited by Cooper Inveen; French version Jean-Michel Blot)