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Attack on Democratic Republic of Congo camp for displaced people reportedly leaves at least 23 children dead
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Date：2025-04-18 18:41:02
Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo — At least 46 people, half of them children, were killed in a militia attack on a camp for displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, security analysts and a local community leader said Monday.
A militia group involved in numerous ethnic killings in the area attacked the camp in northeast Ituri province overnight Sunday to Monday, Richard Dheda, an official of the local administration for Bahema Badjere in Djugu territory, told AFP.
The Kivu Security Tracker (KST), a network of observers based in DRC's restive east, counted "at least 46" dead in the Lala camp.
A community leader Desire Malodra gave the same death toll of 46, adding that 23 of them were children.
He added that the toll was still provisional as "the search continues" for victims.
Earlier, Dheda said there had been 41 victims, while a military source said at least 22 had been killed.
The CODECO militia, or Cooperative for the Development of the Congo, claims to protect the Lendu community from another ethnic group, the Hema, as well as the DR Congo army.
"They began to fire shots, many people were burned to death in their homes, others were killed by machete," Malodra said.
The Lala camp for displaced people is about three miles from Bule, the site of a United Nations peacekeeper base.
Ituri province is one of eastern DR Congo's violence hotspots, where attacks claiming dozens of lives are common.
CODECO militiamen attacked an army position in the Djukoth area of Ituri province's Mahagi territory late on Saturday, killing seven civilians.
After a decade of calm, the conflict between the Hema and Lendu communities rekindled in 2017, resulting in thousands of deaths and forcing more than 1.5 million people from their homes.
Much of eastern DR Congo is plagued by dozens of armed groups, a legacy of regional wars that flared in the 1990s and 2000s.
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