At least 14 people were killed by ISCAP militants around the village of Otmaber in the territory of Irumu on the border with the province of North Kivu. The victims had gone to the forest where they had gone to cultivate and harvest crops and were ambushed by the militants.
Intelligence indicates that ISCAP has resettled in Apakola; a village in the chiefdom of Walese Vonkutu due to the pressure exerted by military operations in North Kivu. Additionally, the majority of victims were from Nande; members of a community of farmers and traders in the territory of Beni, in North Kivu.
The attack comes as Paluku Mbafumoja Mubaraka, a 22-year-old Congolese national was arrested in Mwenda, by Congolese troops. He revealed that he had been sent by his ISCAP colleagues to hide among the population and provide information in the localities of Mwenda and Kikura, in order to facilitate incursions and massacres of civilians planned by these rebels.
ISCAP has been using moles within the population to scout attack locations as well as surveil the movements of both Ugandan and Congolese troops who have been actively trying to decimate the organization that has since withdrawn to remote places such as the villages attacked in Ituri and North Kivu.
