"This is the worst single atrocity since the start of the civil war," said Hamadou Toure, spokesman for the U.N. observer team in the country, in an interview with BBC radio.
The massacre took place in the village of Drodro, about 80 kilometres east of Bunia, the Ituri district's capital, close to the Uganda border. U.N. officials said mass graves had been discovered in the area which has been plagued with ethnic strife.
The massacre took place last Thursday, on the eve of the signing of a peace accord by warring parties in the troubled region - Sapa-DPA
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