The army in the Democratic Republic of Congo says the bodies of 26 people killed in an ambush by rebels earlier this month have been discovered in the east of the country.
The victims - all but one of them civilians - were attacked in the restive Beni territory of North Kivu as they travelled by taxi.
The authorities said they had been unable to locate the bodies before now because of intense fighting in the area, where hundreds of people have died in recent years.|
The BBC reports that the Congolese army and United Nations peacekeepers have blamed the ambush on a Ugandan-based Islamist group called the Allied Democratic Forces.
