At least seventeen (17) fighters of an insurgent group in the DR Congo, Kasai region were killed and other captured in an army ambush on Wednesday.
According to local police source, those who were captured are being held at army headquarters pending their transfer to Kananga, the provincial capital.
During the raid, the army troops recovered several combat weapons and 12-gauge shotguns.
The Kasai region exploded into violence in August 2016 after a tribal chieftain known as the Kamwina Nsapu, who rebelled against President Joseph Kabila, was killed by security forces.
According to UN reports, since 2016, around 3,000 people in Kasai have died — including two United Nations experts sent to investigate the conflict — and more than a million people have been displaced.
