Deaths reported in DRC protest against market closure due to Covid-19

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Police say they fired warning shots to disperse the protesters who gathered at the site to demand the reopening of the Kinshasa market

At least three people died during a protest by hundreds of demonstrators in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, against the Covid-19 lockdown’s closure of the city’s main market, officials and witnesses said.

“We deplore the deaths of three people,” the spokesperson, Charles Mbuta Muntu, said following a meeting to discuss the unrest.

 

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