A UN official in the Democratic Republic of Congo says a massacre in the Ituri region last week claimed about 300 lives.
MONUC, the UN mission in Congo, is investigating the deaths of mostly ethnic Hemas in the village of Drodro. AFP reports the attackers are believed to belong to the rival Lendu ethnic group.
Previous estimates by MONUC, based on witness reports, put the toll closer to 1,000 people.
But Berhooz Sadry, second in charge of MONUC, said on UN-run Radio Okapi today that it was now believed 'some 300 people have been killed'.
Sadry said that people included in the earlier toll were injured, some very seriously, in machete attacks.
