Gunmen kill two rangers in Congo's Virunga National Park

FILE PHOTO: Virunga park rangers guard tourists visiting the Nyiragongo volcano inside the Virunga National Park near the eastern Congolese city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, August 10, 2019.Picture taken August 10, 2019. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Gunmen killed two rangers in Congo's Virunga National Park on Sunday, the Congo Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN) said in a statement, the second attack this month in the country's restive east.

The attack took place near Rwindi in North Kivu province, north of another attack on May 18 in which three rangers and a worker were killed.