A homemade bomb exploded this morning, injuring two women inside a Catholic church in the city of Beni, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an hour before a confirmation took place. It is the first time that this has happened in this eastern region of the country, where the armed group of the ADF, linked to ISIS, which since 2013 would have killed 6 thousand people in the area, is at war with the government but never hit a church.
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Another bomb had exploded the day before at a gas station, but without doing any damage. In May, two imams of Beni, opponents of the jihadist violence of the ADF, were killed with bullets. On March 11, the United States had included the ADF among the “terrorist groups” affiliated with Isis.
In the country, in February, our ambassador Luca Attanasio was killed.
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