"A combat section left very early this morning," Isabelle Abric said from Bunia, the capital of the troubled northeastern Ituri region.
The squad of Monuc troops numbered 35 men, Abric said, and they were headed for "a village from where the attackers probably left on Monday morning".
Abric did not name the village.
Latest figures from Monuc say at least 65 people, thought to be from the minority Hema tribe, were killed and a score wounded in Kachele, about 100 km northeast of Bunia.
The killers are thought to be from the larger Lendu tribe, whose long-running feud with the Hema has claimed some 50 000 lives since 1999.
Two other Monuc combat sections spent Tuesday night in Kachele. – Sapa-AFP.
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