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Written by Reuters -
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Suspected Islamist militants killed at least 22 civilians with knives and machetes in an overnight raid on villages near Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local official said.
Just over three weeks ago government declared martial law in North Kivu and Ituri, two provinces bordering Uganda, in an attempt to stem increasing bloodshed.
A four-month-old baby was found alive on the back of a victim, one of seven children from the same family apparently orphaned in the latest violence in villages east of Beni.
“They gave the baby to me to feed because she was crying,” the woman’s sister Kavira Mwisha said.