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Two presidential guards killed in shoot-out

    KINSHASA

    Two presidential guards were killed and three wounded in a shoot-out on Monday in the presidential palace in the capital, Kinshasa, where former President Laurent-Desire Kabila was killed in January 2001.

    The government reported that a deranged guard in military uniform was responsible for the shooting in the Marble Palace.

    "The soldier entered the guardhouse of the National Security Committee, took a weapon and attacked the guard contingent before being shot dead," Kikaya bin Karubi, the DRC minister for communication and government spokesman, said.

    The shooting took place just before President Joseph Kabila returned to Kinshasa from a trip to Katanga Province. The incident happened near the spot where Kabila's father, the late President Laurent-Desire Kabila, was gunned down by one of his bodyguards on 16 January 2001.

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