BENI, DR Congo, July 23, 2021 (BSS/AFP) - Suspected members of an Islamist militia shot and killed 16 people as they were returning home from a weekly market in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, local and medical sources said Friday.

  The dead included six women and a child, Jerome Munyambethe, head of the hospital in the town of Oicha, told AFP.