DHAKA: About 100 people were slaughtered last week in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the latest massacre to shake the restive region.

Lawmakers told the media on Monday, reports The Straits Times.

The carnage took place on Thursday near Beni in the North Kivu province, where mainly Muslim Ugandan rebels have been blamed for killing more than 200 civilians in gruesome machete attacks since October.

‘I have a figure of 95 bodies buried in a common grave,’ as well as ‘nine others that were shown to authorities in a morgue,’ opposition member of parliament Juma Balikwisha told the media.

‘We still don’t have a definitive toll. It lies between 70 and 100 people killed,’ said Albert Baliesima, an MP for the parliamentary majority backing president Joseph Kabila.

BDST: 2025 HRS, NOV 24, 2014