Iran Press/Africa: Lieutenant Anthony Mualushayi, a spokesman for the DR Congo’s army, made the announcement and said the fatalities took place as the two sides clashed in the eastern city of Beni in the North Kivu region, which borders Uganda.
Mualushayi said the clashes had killed 14 members of the so-called Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), while another army spokesman, Sylvain Ekenge, put the figure at 13.
At least five army soldiers were also wounded in the fighting, Mualushayi added.
The ADF, originally a Ugandan rebel group opposed to the country’s President Yoweri Museveni, has been operating along the Congo-Uganda border for more than two decades.
Since October last year, the DR Congo’s army has launched a crackdown against the armed group to contain the violence and restore calm in the eastern region.
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