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ISIS Claims Responsibility for Church Attack In Congo


Mon 16 Jan 2023 | 10:06 AM
Attack  in Congo
Attack in Congo
Basant Ahmed

The terrorist organization "ISIS" claimed responsibility for an attack during Sunday mass, at Kasindi church eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 5 people and wounding 15 others. 

A military spokesman in the Democratic Republic of Congo said over phone that at least 5 people were killed and 16 others were wounded, Sunday, in a bomb attack, suspected of being carried out by Islamist militants, on a church in the eastern city of Kasindi on the border with Uganda.

Army spokesman Anthony Mwalushayee said in a statement  that it was a "terrorist act" that took place in a church in the town of Kasindi. 

Mwalushayee announced later that five bodies had been taken to the hospital after the attack, explaining that this was a preliminary outcome.

 A local civil society figure said the death toll was eight, and that 27 other people were wounded