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Militia attack kills 20 in eastern DR Congo

Soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) launched an offensive against ADF militants in October

Militants killed 20 people, most of them hacked to death, in Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern Beni region in the latest attack by an armed group blamed for massacres that have sparked angry protests.

Local officials said fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamist-militia originally from neighbouring Uganda, on Sunday attacked Apetina-Sana west of Oicha, the chief administrative town in Beni region.

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