Monday, February 28, 2011

DRC: Power claims to have escaped a coup

A residence of Congolese President Joseph Kabila in Kinshasa was attacked Sunday, February 27, said the spokesman of the government. "The president's residence" Joseph Kabila in the district of Gombe in Kinshasa, has been "attacked by a group of unidentified men," Sunday at 1:30 p.m. (local time), said Lambert Mende, the carrier government spokesman of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

"Six attackers were killed, some were taken prisoner. The attackers were heavily armed. The President was in the vicinity," he added without elaborating. "Now it's quiet in the city," he said. Troops from the Republican Guard were patrolling on foot in small groups near the presidential residence, a district where the embassies.

Light armored vehicles and a tank also circulated slowly around the neighborhood.

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