{"id":207114,"date":"2023-01-17T09:16:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T01:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=207114"},"modified":"2023-01-17T09:16:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T01:16:43","slug":"dr-congo-bomb-kills-at-least-10-at-church-in-attack-claimed-by-daesh-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=207114","title":{"rendered":"DR Congo: Bomb kills at least 10 at church in attack claimed by Daesh group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2023\/01\/16\/image-105408-1673838564.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0BENI (DR Congo), Jan 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;\u00a0At least 10 people were killed and 39 wounded in a bomb attack on a church in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo claimed by Daesh militants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congolese military spokesman Antony Mualushayi said the &#8220;terrorist act&#8221; happened Sunday in a Pentecostal church in North Kivu province&#8217;s Kasindi, a town on the border with Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The explosion killed at least 10 people and wounded 39, he added, revising up an initial death toll of five. Both tolls were provisional, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the spokesman for Uganda&#8217;s military operation in the DRC, Bilal Katamba, said that 16 people had been killed in the blast, and 20 wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The attackers used an IED to carry out the attack and we suspect ADF is behind the attack,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DRC&#8217;s communications ministry said on social media that the attack was apparently carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) &#8212; which the Daesh group claims as its affiliate in central Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday evening, the Daesh group claimed responsibility for the attack and said &#8220;nearly 20&#8221; people had been killed, according to the specialised monitoring group Site intelligence group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Army spokesman Mualushayi said a Kenyan suspect was arrested after the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DRC&#8217;s presidency condemned the bombing, as did the United Nations peacekeeping mission which described it as a &#8220;cowardly and despicable attack&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi placed North Kivu and Ituri under a so-called state of siege in 2021 in a bid to stem the violence, with military officials replacing civilian administrators. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BENI (DR Congo), Jan 17 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;\u00a0At least 10 people were killed and 39 wounded in a bomb attack on a church in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo claimed by Daesh militants. Congolese military spokesman Antony Mualushayi said the &#8220;terrorist act&#8221; happened Sunday in a Pentecostal church in North Kivu province&#8217;s Kasindi, a town on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":207116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207117,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207114\/revisions\/207117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}