Attack on Congo village kills 17
Rwandan combatants attacked a village in eastern Congo today, killing 17 people, wounding 28 others and taking as many as a dozen people hostage, a local rights worker said, citing survivors’ accounts.
The attackers, carrying machetes, spears and hammers, descended on the village of Kanyola in the middle of the night, rights worker Constantin Charondagwa said by telephone from Bukavu, about 30 miles from Kanyola.
