KINSHASA (Reuters) - Between 50 and 80 people have been killed in attacks by suspected Ugandan ADF-NALU rebels near the eastern Congolese town of Beni, the local civil society coalition said on Friday.
Civil Society of North Kivu, the province Beni is in, said in a statement the killings took place on Thursday evening about 10 km (6 miles) east of Beni's airport, where U.N. peacekeepers are based. The U.N. mission was not available for comment.
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