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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Justin Kabumba and Ope Adetayo

At least 34 killed in attack on east Congo church by Islamic State-backed rebels, civil leader says

Congo Church Attack - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

The death toll from an attack on a Catholic church in eastern Congo by Islamic State-backed rebels has risen to 34, according to a civil society leader.

"The bodies of the victims are still at the scene of the tragedy, and volunteers are preparing how to bury them in a mass grave that we are preparing in a compound of the Catholic church,” Dieudonne Duranthabo, a civil society coordinator in Komanda, in the Ituri province, told The Associated Press.

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