From Al-Jazeera

At least 22 people, most of them women and children, have been hacked and clubbed to death in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, just days after a similar massacre took place, a government official said.

The attack on Friday evening in the town of Eringeti, in North Kivu, left 10 women, eight children and four men dead, a local government official told the AFP news agency.

“Most of the victims were killed with machetes, axes and hoes,” the non-governmental group Civil Society of North Kivu said in a statement. 

Several children had their heads “bashed against the walls” it said, blaming the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan rebel group, that has terrorised the area for much of the last two decades.

Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb, reporting from the town of Beni, said the latest attacks took the total number of people killed in last 10 days to over 80.

“People here are understandably distraught,” our correspondent said.

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