The Ugandan army said today that dozens of people had been killed in ethnic clashes in northeast Congo in the past two days.
"For the last two days the Lendu have been killing people, we do not know the exact number but they are dozens," Uganda's army spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza said.
He said armed warriors went on a killing spree using assault rifles on Wednesday night, adding that there was no evident reason for the bloodletting, the latest massacre in two years of conflict between ethnic groups in the region.
Thousands of people have been killed in the past two years in fighting in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, mainly pitting the Hema tribe against the Lendu.