<span style="color: #222222;">19 people were killed on Wednesday in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by a suspected group blamed for massacres that have sparked deadly protests against the United Nations' peacekeeping mission, the UN said.<br />'' <br />'' Local administrator Donat Kibwana said 14 bodies had arrived at the morgue in Oicha, 30 kilometres from the city of Beni, adding that they were killed by machete.<br />'' <br />''<br />''A spokesman for the UN mission MONUSCO confirmed this figure, but later said the toll had been revised upwards. Nineteen dead. </span><br />