At least 20 people were injured late yesterday during a bomb attack at a small market in the city of Beni of the North Kivu province in the northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), an army spokesman told Xinhua.

Captain Anthony Mwalushayi, spokesman for the Congolese army in the Beni region, said an improvised explosive device was placed in a bag containing cassava near a flour milling machine at the market.

The majority of the injured are women who were selling at the market when the device exploded. At least seven people have been seriously injured, according to the spokesman contacted by Xinhua.

‘For the moment we do not have enough details but the security forces and specialized services sealed off the place of the explosion for investigations,’ said Mwalushayi, blaming this tragedy on the rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).

‘We know, however, that this is the work of the ADF terrorists,’ he noted.

Source: The Namibian Press Agency