<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has left more than a dozen people dead in three days, military and local sources said on Sunday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Over 120 militias roam the country's volatile east, and there are frequent attacks on civilians.</div><div><br></div><div>Two soldiers were among those killed since Friday.</div><div><br></div><div>A military leader in North Kivu province said Sunday: "We have just lost a brave soldier killed in an attack on our position in the northern outskirts of the city of Butembo by Mai-Mai militiamen".</div><div><br></div><div>The leader, who did not wish to be named, said two members of the militia were killed.</div><div><br></div><div>On Sunday in northeastern Ituri province "six gold miners were killed and decapitated by rebels from the CODECO group", Prince Kaleta, civil society president in Lodjo, Ituri told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>CODECO -- the Cooperative for the Development of the Congo -- is a political-religious sect that claims to represent the interests of the Lendu ethnic group.</div><div><br></div><div>It is considered one of the deadliest militias, blamed for ethnic massacres in Ituri.</div><div><br></div><div>Three civilians were "killed in an attack by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)" in North Kivu on Saturday night, said Flavien Kakule, head of a locality in the Bashu chiefdom, Beni territory.</div><div><br></div><div>The Islamic State group claims the ADF as its regional affiliate.</div><div><br></div><div>During protests against the United Nations in southern North Kivu on Friday and Saturday, "there was a death among the demonstrators, who carried bladed weapons and threw stones at a base of the Blue Helmets" in Kiwanja, Jason Ntawiha, mayor of the Rutshuru commune, told AFP.</div><div><br></div><div>A soldier who "had just killed a civilian in Kimoka" was "killed and lynched by the angry population", Saturday, Colonel Philemon Kakule, commander of the Congolese Army regiment in Sake, North Kivu, told AFP. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>