Goma, DR Congo:
Twenty six people have been killed in an attack on Beni, a major town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a Congolese army spokesman told AFP on Thursday.
Civil society groups in the Nord-Kivu region said the attack overnight Wednesday to Thursday in Beni was carried out by an Islamist group called Allied Democratic Forces.
However, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Olivier Hamuli said this was not confirmed.