UN mission in DR of Congo to look into allegation that village near Bunia attacked

A United Nations investigation of allegations that a village near Bunia, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was attacked and levelled was postponed until Saturday because of bad weather, the UN peacekeeping mission there said today.

The village, called Che, 60 kilometres from Bunia in Ituri's Djugu territory, was said to have been reduced to ashes by unidentified assailants, Radio Okapi of the UN Organization Mission in the DRC (MONUC) reported.

Members of a German non-governmental organization (NGO) who were trying to visit the village raised the alarm, MONUC said.