Goma Airport Attack: Congo Soldiers Arrest Gang Leader

Category: World News

Soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have captured the suspected gang leader of the deadly attack this week on the largest airport in the east of the country.

At least four soldiers and three suspected assailants were killed in gun attack at Goma airport on Tuesday, the attack which is believed to have being carried out by ethnic Mai-Mai fighters.

The region has seen years of conflict involving dozens of armed militia such as the Mai-Mai that control large parts of the mineral-rich eastern borderlands, but attacks of this kind are rare, a Reuters report claims.

According to DRC Government spokesman, Lambert Mende "the man captured is a "criminal" from the town of Butembo, some 270 km (170 miles) north of Goma".

"He recruited the band of criminal authors of this aggression before supervising their trip to Goma and the perpetration of the attack on the airport," Mende said in a statement.

The suspected gang leader was arrested in Goma after some assailants who were arrested through intelligence gathering, provided information that led to the arrest of the gang leader.

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