Insurgency reports from Eastern DRC indicate that notorious Mai-Mai militia August 10 attacked fifteen villages about 80 km west of Goma, Masisi in North Kivu.
At least five people were killed, three others injured, and seven villages burnt. Congolese forces in the region are said to have deployed since Saturday to secure the area.
The Raïa Mutomboki attacked Nkokwe market to Remeka and the surrounding villages in pursuit of the rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
During the attack on the market, a woman, two men, a girl and a boy were killed.
The Mai-Mai are a vigilante group which performs popular recurring raids on the positions of the FDLR, considered in the area as a foreign occupation force.
In the villages, these militiamen wounded elderly and children with machetes. Two seriously injured were transported Sunday to a hospital in Goma.
The victims reported that Raïa Mutomboki burned at least seven villages and the people were left to die in burning houses.
Hundreds of people fled Remeka by Friday to take refuge in Bukumbiri.
Military sources in Ngungu, near Remeka have said a team of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) has been dispatched.
Masisi Member of Parliament Jean-Bosco Sebishimbo, also confirmed the attacks. He asked the area authorities to investigate to determine responsibilities, but also to secure the local population.
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