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Gabonese diplomat murdered

Togolese President Gnassingbe Eyadema on Monday condemned the murder of Gabonese Charge d'Affaires Mamva Nkele in Lome by armed carjackers and said his government would do everything to find his killers, state-owned Radio Lome reported on Monday. General Akawilou Sizing Wala, Togo's interior minister, said in a communique that Nkele had stopped his car at a roadblock on Saturday afternoon when two men on a motorcycle ordered him to switch off his engine and hand over the keys of the vehicle. When he refused, one of the men pulled him out of the car and shot him. He died soon after being rushed to hospital. Sizing Wala said Eyadema reassured Gabon's government of his determination to do everything to track down his killers. "Interpol has been informed and the public prosecutor has ordered investigations into the crime," the interior minister said.

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