By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: A suicide bomber attacked a restaurant and bar Saturday as patrons gathered on Christmas Day, killing at least six others in an eastern Congolese town where Islamist extremists are known to be active.
Heavy gunfire rang out shortly after the bomb went off, with panicked crowds fleeing the town's centre.
The latest violence only deepens fear that religious extremism has taken hold in a region already plagued for years by rebels.
Among the dead were two children, according to Mayor Narcisse Muteba, who is also a police colonel. At least 13 other people were wounded and taken to a local hospital.
Investigations are underway to find the perpetrators of this terrorist attack.
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