...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
(DRC), according the country’s army.
The explosion killed at least 10 people and maimed 39 others, army front man Anthony Mualushay said on Sunday. Both tolls were provisional, he added.
Mualushay said the attack during the Sunday service in the city of Kasindi, on the border with Uganda, was likely carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan gang that has pledged allegiance to ISIS (ISIS).
Later on Sunday, the ISIS group claimed responsbility for the attack. The ADF, which began as an uprising in Uganda but has been based in the DRC since the late 1990s.
Survivors and witnesses said the blast severed some people’s limbs from their bodies.
Death toll in east DR Congo church attack rises to 14
[AlAhram] At least 14 people were killed in a church bombing in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo at the weekend, an army front man said Monday, raising an earlier toll of 10 dead.
On Sunday, a bomb destroyed an evangelical church in Kasindi, a town in North Kivu province on the border with Uganda.
The DRC government said the Allied Democratic Forces
...the ADF is one of several murderous Moslem groups in NE Congo. In 2019 the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on them for the usual reasons. They don't appear to be affiliated with al-Qaeda or Islamic State, though ISIS claims their work from time to time — they just like killing infidels....(ADF), which the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group claims as its central African affiliate, was apparently to blame.
The Islamic State later grabbed credit for the attack, according to specialist monitoring group Site Intelligence.
Antony Mualushayi, a Congolese military front man, told news hounds on Monday that 14 people had died and 63 were maimed, raising an earlier reported toll of 10 dead and 39 maimed.
Uganda's military operation in the DRC said on Sunday evening that 16 had been killed and 20 maimed.
Mualushayi said a suspected jacket wallah was among the maimed and had been transferred to the nearby town of Beni for medical care.
"We pray to God that he lives so that he can give us the information we're looking for," he said.
A Kenyan national was arrested on Monday following the attack.
Mualushayi said that several more people had been arrested and that investigations, which are in their preliminary stages, are ongoing.
"According to the information at our disposal, there are still two bombs that are in the city and we are doing the best possible to detect them," he said.
The ADF is one of the deadliest of the more than 120 gangs in eastern DRC, many of them the legacy of regional wars that flared at the turn of the century in the vast impoverished nation.
It has been accused of slaughtering thousands of Congolese civilians and carrying out kabooms in Uganda. ADF operatives have also planted bombs in towns in North Kivu in the past.