Local officials said this is happening more than two weeks after the Congolese army announced an offensive to root out insurgents.
Officials said a man and his five children were killed and three other people injured in the assault in the Beni region, an area plagued by armed groups.
Local administrator, DONAT KIBWANA blamed the attack on an Islamist-inspired rebel group, the Allied Democratic Forces, a militia of Ugandan origin that has long operated in the border region in North Kivu province.
The Islamic State group has claimed some of the ADF’s recent attacks but there is no clear evidence of any affiliation between them.
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