ITURI: Intercommunal violence was probably the cause of two massacres in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s northeast this week, a United Nations peacekeeping source said on Friday (Saturday in Manila), while unable to confirm the toll of 58 deaths given by local officials.

The Ituri province’s interior minister Adjio Gidi told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Thursday that 23 people were killed in the region on Tuesday, and another 35 on Thursday.

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