More than 20 killed in militant attack on eastern DRC village

At least 21 people have been killed in a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in an area that usually sees Islamist rebel attacks, local authorities said on Tuesday.

The militants launched the attack late on Monday and killed residents in the Mwenda village with machetes and guns.

Civil society leader Jeremi Mbweki blamed the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan Islamist group.