{An overnight attack by suspected Ugandan rebels in the area of Beni in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has left 14 people dead, authorities said Sunday.}<\/p>\n
The attack in the village of Oicha in North Kivu province was confirmed by a military spokesman and a local official.<\/p>\n
More than 200 people have been killed in a series of massacres in Beni and the surrounding area blamed on the Allied Democratic Forces and National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (ADF-NALU).<\/p>\n
Town chief Jean-Baptiste Kamabu, reached by telephone from the North Kivu capital Goma, said the assailants wielded machetes and axes.<\/p>\n
He said two people were wounded and another two were abducted.<\/p>\n
Celestin Ngeleka, spokesman of a military operation against armed groups in the region, confirmed the death toll of 14, which he said could rise.<\/p>\n
Soldiers are still searching the area and could “find other cadavers”, he said.<\/p>\n
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