BUNIA: At least four Chinese nationals were killed on Wednesday morning in an attack on a mining site in the gold-rich Ituri province, in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to local sources.

Militia kills 15 in eastern DR Congo: local sources

Several Congolese were also killed or injured in the attack, which some of the local sources attribute to a militia group, Codeco, claiming to defend the interests of the Lendu tribe against the rival Hema tribe.