Eight killed in DR Congo

Bukavu, DR Congo: Two Pygmies and six militiamen were killed in a DR Congo army offensive to dislodge them from a national park which houses the world’s largest gorilla species, officials said on Saturday.

Friday’s operation in the Kahozi-Biega park, the only place in the world where the Grauer’s gorilla roams in the wild, also saw around 90 huts torched.

"In a joint operation with the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) and forest guards to evict the Pygmies... two Pygmies were killed and others were wounded," said Pascal Cimana, the top official of the adjoining Kalehe region.