Sister Marie-Sylvie Kavuke Vakatsuraki, from the Congregation of Petites Soeurs del la Presentation de Notre Dame au Temple, in Butembo, was one of the victims of the attack by armed men, belonging to a rebel group that calls itself the ADF, Allied Democratic Forces, to the hospital where she was working in the village of Maboya, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In the attack, during the night of Wednesday, October 19, and which lasted into the early hours of the next day, another hospital unit in the area was destroyed, with the loss of at least seven people. The sister, a doctor, died of charring.