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Article: 3 Killed in Congo Palace Shootout
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- November 4, 2002
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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) _ A man in military uniform opened fire in the
palace of President Joseph Kabila on Monday, and two members of the
presidential guard and the gunman were killed in a gunfight, Kabila'
s spokesman said.
Three other security officers were injured. Kabila had just returned
to the Congo capital when the shooting occurred and was not in the
palace, authorities said.
The gunfight broke out in the same area of the marble presidential
palace where Joseph Kabila's father, Laurent, was shot to death at
his desk on Jan. 16, 2001.
Authorities did not call the latest shooting an assassination attempt.
"A deranged man in military uniform entered the ...