[AFRICANEWS] Unknown attackers killed a police officer during a raid on a jail in Democratic Republic of the Congo
...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo , which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material...
’s capital Kinshasa on Thursday, police and diplomatic sources told Rooters.
The raid took place just hours after the government said it had cancelled a major independence day military parade for security reasons.
It was not clear how the officer died, but gunfire was heard at the jail in the Matonge neighbourhood and dozens of heavily-armed police and soldiers were deployed to the area. Security was also reinforced around the state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
building several kilometres away.
Sources were unable to say if any prisoners escaped. Government and local officials were not immediately available for comment.
"There was gunfire. I saw a woman maimed in her leg by a bullet," said one witness who asked not to be named.
Thousands of inmates have beat feet from jails this year in Congo, including about 4,000 from the capital Kinshasa’s main high-security prison last month, stoking fears that the security situation is deteriorating amid a growing political crisis.
President Joseph Kabila, in power since 2001, refused to step down
...Hell no! The money's too good! ...
at the end of his mandate in December, raising fears of a return to the civil wars of the turn of the century that killed millions. 
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