<p>Eighteen people in eastern DR Congo's troubled region of Beni have been killed in a fresh attack by a notorious armed group, a local official said on Monday.</p>.<p>"There was an incursion in Apetina-Sana by the ADF last night," Beni administrator Donat Kibwana told AFP, referring to the Allied Democratic Forces militia.</p>.<p>"(They) hacked 18 civilians to death."</p>.<p>Apetina-Sana is 16 kilometres (10 miles) west of Oicha, the chief administrative town in the Beni region.</p>.<p>It is a point on the so-called Death Triangle, along with Mbau and Eringeti -- the worst-hit area for attacks.</p>.<p>ADF fighters have killed more than 200 people since the army launched an offensive against the militia on October 30, according to a toll compiled by civil society groups.</p>.<p>The toll has sparked anger over the authorities' response.</p>.<p>"The authorities were tipped off on Sunday evening about the presence of suspicious men west of Oicha," said Teddy Kataliko, a civil society activist in Beni.</p>.<p>"We continue to ask the DRC armed forces to launch operations on the western side as well, to save civilians."</p>.<p>There have also been demonstrations in the city of Beni, where local people accuse the UN peacekeeping force MONUSCO of failing to protect them.</p>.<p>The ADF began as an Islamist rebellion hostile to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.</p>.<p>It fell back into eastern DRC in 1995 and appears to have halted raids inside Uganda. Its recruits today are people of various nationalities.</p>.<p>In a separate incident in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, "armed bandits" attacked a base used by a Chinese-owned gold mine, killing four people, the military said.</p>.<p>The raid happened in Irumu district in the northeastern province of Ituri, said Lieutenant Jules Ngongo, the army's provincial spokesman.</p>.<p>Two soldiers, a policeman and a driver for the mine were killed, he said.</p>.<p>"The assailants have not been completely identified but they must be armed bandits who look for supplies during the year-end festivities," Ngongo said.</p>
<p>Eighteen people in eastern DR Congo's troubled region of Beni have been killed in a fresh attack by a notorious armed group, a local official said on Monday.</p>.<p>"There was an incursion in Apetina-Sana by the ADF last night," Beni administrator Donat Kibwana told AFP, referring to the Allied Democratic Forces militia.</p>.<p>"(They) hacked 18 civilians to death."</p>.<p>Apetina-Sana is 16 kilometres (10 miles) west of Oicha, the chief administrative town in the Beni region.</p>.<p>It is a point on the so-called Death Triangle, along with Mbau and Eringeti -- the worst-hit area for attacks.</p>.<p>ADF fighters have killed more than 200 people since the army launched an offensive against the militia on October 30, according to a toll compiled by civil society groups.</p>.<p>The toll has sparked anger over the authorities' response.</p>.<p>"The authorities were tipped off on Sunday evening about the presence of suspicious men west of Oicha," said Teddy Kataliko, a civil society activist in Beni.</p>.<p>"We continue to ask the DRC armed forces to launch operations on the western side as well, to save civilians."</p>.<p>There have also been demonstrations in the city of Beni, where local people accuse the UN peacekeeping force MONUSCO of failing to protect them.</p>.<p>The ADF began as an Islamist rebellion hostile to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.</p>.<p>It fell back into eastern DRC in 1995 and appears to have halted raids inside Uganda. Its recruits today are people of various nationalities.</p>.<p>In a separate incident in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday, "armed bandits" attacked a base used by a Chinese-owned gold mine, killing four people, the military said.</p>.<p>The raid happened in Irumu district in the northeastern province of Ituri, said Lieutenant Jules Ngongo, the army's provincial spokesman.</p>.<p>Two soldiers, a policeman and a driver for the mine were killed, he said.</p>.<p>"The assailants have not been completely identified but they must be armed bandits who look for supplies during the year-end festivities," Ngongo said.</p>