At least 24 people including seven civilians, one UN peacekeeper and four soldiers were killed in a town in east of the Democratic Republic Congo after a rebel attack, the Congolese army says.
UN General Jean Baillaud said it was suspected that the attack was carried out by a Ugandan Islamist group, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).
One local civil society group put the death toll at 38.
The seven civilians who died were all killed in the clinic.
The attackers also blocked the town’s military base and a position of the UN peacekeeping mission, while others looted shops and the clinic.
