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At least 60 people have been killed in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo during several attacks by an affiliate of the Islamic State terrorist group, authorities said on Saturday. The attacks took place in Béni, a territory in the province of North Kivu. “This week alone, they killed 29 civilians on Tuesday in Mamove and then yesterday, Friday, executed 28 other civilians near Masau,” said Kambale Gerve, a civil society leader in Beni, told dpa. A Red Cross source in Kinshasa said that “around 60 bodies have been taken in … while others are lying on the ground in areas that are still …

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