At least 20 people were hacked to death and several homes burned by ISCAP militants in Kikura village in Beni in an overnight attack. The militants are said to have attacked civilians who had retired to their homes for the night indiscriminately with machetes and knives.
Since early February, ISCAP has increased attacks in the chiefdom of Watalinga, on the border with Uganda, killing several civilians. Meanwhile, joint FARDC-UPDF operations have expanded to Ituri. These operations are supposed to dismantle the militancy in North Kivu and Ituri, two provinces under siege since May last year.
ISCAP in DRC has morphed to adapt and survive from the repeated onslaught by the joint operations between Congolese and Ugandan troops. Intelligence indicates that despite the insurgency having guns and automatic weapons it is conducting attacks with crude weapons such as knives and machetes to avoid drawing attention to themselves.
