Policemen decapitated in ambush
Publish date: 27 March 2017
Issue Number: 669
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: DRC
Forty-two police officers have been decapitated by a Congolese militia group after the officers' vehicles were ambushed. A report on the allAfrica site notes that the country's Kasai region has seen seven months of severe violence amid local power struggles. Members of the Kamwena Nsapu militia were behind the attack on a convoy of two police trucks in the DRC's Kasia Central province, according to the report. The attack between the cities of Tshikapa and Kananga occurred on Friday, according to Kasai Assembly President Francois Kalamba.
