A rebel group’s attack on a Catholic hospital’s maternity ward in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed around 20 people, including breastfeeding mothers and their babies. Authorities have blamed the Allied Democratic Forces, an armed group affiliated with the Islamic State, for the massacre.
Armed men moved swiftly through the village, killing patients in their beds and setting fire to the center, local administrator Col. Alain Kiwewa told The Associated Press on Saturday.
“Women who were breastfeeding were brutally slaughtered and found with their throats slit in their hospital beds,” Kiwewa was quoted as saying. Of the 17 people killed, 11 were women and six were men, he said.
The hospital’s maternity ward was among the hardest hit. Witnesses reported that several women and their newborns were burned alive…
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