Congo Militia Attacks Police Chief’s House in Katanga
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At least six people died when 50 militia gunmen in the Democratic Republic of Congo attacked the house of the head of military police in Lubumbashi, capital of copper-rich Katanga province, a senior military officer said.
Government forces killed three attackers and wounded nine others, while three soldiers died in the fighting today, Major General Rombault Mbuayama Nsiona, chief of the army’s sixth military region, said in a mobile-phone message.