Explosives found strapped to baby twins as child violence rises in DR Congo – UN

Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo strapped explosive belts around baby twin girls as a booby-trap for security forces – just one incident in a surge in violence against children there, the United Nations said on Friday. The two girls, aged one-year-old, were found in a village in north Kivu, a region where a militant group known as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) has stepped up bomb attacks, the UNICEF children's agency said. "The intention was with the arrival of police or Congolese military they would trigger the explosion against the security forces," Grant Leaity, the UNICEF representative in Congo, told a media briefing in Geneva.