Via provinces26rdc.net: DRC: 6 dead and 4 vehicles burned (Attacks against WHO agents in the East). Excerpt:
According to the Center for Studies for the Promotion of Peace, Democracy and Human Rights (CEPADHO), the attack was planned by a group of Mai-Mai whose majority would come from Kabasha in the Beni territory. (North Kivu). They would have split into small groups to distract the police. One section reportedly invested the base housing the response teams, while another raided the police sub-station of the square.
The militiamen who invested the base of the response have successively killed three agents of the response, including Ms. Kasongo Belinda, assigned by the WHO to the Immunization Commission and two drivers attached to the team 7 of the response to Byakato. In addition, they burned 4 jeeps of the riposte and a motorcycle, before sabotaging the tents, mattresses and other effects they accessed.
Those who attacked the police sub-station managed to sabotage 2 jeeps of the response by bullets. The intervention of the police and security forces to put the attackers out of harm's way was not so easy. The shootings lasted until 7.15 am on the morning of Thursday, November 28th. A Mai-Mai militia was killed and four others captured.
Moreover, according to CEPADHO, the death of another civilian victim of crossfire by the belligerents is deplored. This is a woman known in the city as suffering from a mental illness. Three other civilians were also reportedly seriously injured by stray bullets. In addition, other CEPADHO sources speak of a soldier who was shot by the enemy during the FARDC intervention in support of the police.
For the moment, although the army and the police are in control of the situation after the Mai-Mai rout, activities have remained paralyzed in Biakato. Shops, the market and schools remained closed and traffic on public roads was interrupted. Meanwhile, the response teams have evacuated their staff, fearing, they say, for their safety. Monusco evacuated by helicopter the bodies and agents of the response teams that survived the attack.
While these attacks are recorded in Byakato, in the neighboring village of Lwemba 4 community deaths have been reported, of which 2 occurred on Wednesday 27 November and 2 others on Thursday 28 November. A case would already be confirmed Ebola and other people should be sampled to know their condition before burial dignified and secure. A few weeks ago the Ebola response teams were forced to leave Lwemba after the multiple attacks they were receiving.
At the same time, another attack aimed at sabotaging Mangina's CTE (Ebola Treatment Center) was barely prevented by the police. During the shootings with militiamen in Mangina, one assailant was killed and 2 others were captured that night. Early in the morning, in their search operations, the police still managed to get their hands on 2 other Mai-Mai, including one wounded, thus making a total of 4 captured.
