More than ten people, mainly children, were injured in the attack that took place in the evening of Monday 3 October.
The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group with origins in Uganda and presented by Daech since 2019 as its “Central Africa” branch (ISCAP in English), is multiplying attacks in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
After killing two policemen and breaking out more than 800 prisoners from the largest prison in the town of Butembo on 10 August, they have just claimed responsibility for the explosion of a homemade bomb in a makeshift cinema in the same town.
In its statement issued on Wednesday, ISCAP said that its attack “caused the injury of about 10 people.”
For the past two years, bomb attacks have been multiplying in this region of about one million inhabitants.
A suicide bombing in a restaurant killed seven people and injured about 20 during the Christmas celebrations.
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