Dozens killed in North Kivu funeral attack by ISIS-linked ADF

At least 50 to 60 people were killed when rebels linked to the Islamic State attacked a funeral in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday night, local officials said, in one of a string of recent mass killings in the volatile North Kivu region. The assault took place in the village of Ntoyo in Lubero territory as residents gathered to mourn, according to military and civilian administrators.

Accounts of the death toll varied. Colonel Alain Kiwewa, the military administrator for Lubero, said the attack caused around 60 deaths and that authorities were still deploying services to the area to tally bodies, including people who had been beheaded. Macaire Sivikunula, another local administrator, put a provisional toll at 50. Rescue and recovery efforts were continuing, and officials warned the number could rise as more bodies and missing people are accounted for.

Survivors described a rapid, brutal assault. "There were about 10 of them. I saw machetes. They told people to gather in one place and started cutting them. I listened to people screaming and I fainted," one woman who attended the burial and spoke on condition of anonymity said. Local civil society leaders said...