India, Nov. 6 -- JUSTIN KABUMBAGOMA

Islamic State-linked militants killed at least 33 people in an overnight attack on a village in eastern Congo, burning and looting homes, a local civil society group said on Friday.

The attack on Cantine, in North Kivu province, was blamed on the Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, Justin Paluku, head of a local civil society group, said. "So far, we have counted 33 bodies and more than 50 houses set on fire, along with various other forms of material destruction," Paluku said.

The violence forced villagers to flee to other parts of the province, where the fastest-spreading Ebola outbreak in history is raging.

The ADF, which has roots in Uganda and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group in 2019...