At least 15 mass graves have been found in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo in the wake of three days of ethnic bloodshed in December, a spokeswoman for the U.N.'s MONUSCO mission in Congo said on Tuesday.
Earlier in January, the United Nations estimated that at least 890 were killed as a result of the violence, some of the worst in the area for years, which highlighted the precarious state of inter-ethnic relations even in the Central African country's more peaceful regions.
A MONUSCO special mission looking into the circumstances of the fighting found at least 11 mass graves and 43 individual graves around the town of Yumbi and at least four communal graves containing at least 170 bodies in nearby Bongende, spokeswoman Florence Marchal said.