Kinshasa - At least five people are now known to have died during the night in gunfire in a series of incidents in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said Monday.
But according to the UN mission in the Congo (MONUC) Kinshasa was calm after the violence on Sunday night, when provisional results of the July 30 presidential poll were announced.
"Our security services have reported five deaths, but that toll remains to be confirmed and could rise," said MONUC's deputy spokesperson Jean-Tobie Okala.
MONUC and police sources reported that the dead included a soldier from the bodyguard of vice-president and presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Bemba, and a member of the bodyguard of incumbent President Joseph Kabila, who were killed in a shoot out near Bemba's headquarters.
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Little traffic A civilian was also killed near MONUC headquarters, a member of the security forces was killed near a military camp, and an unidentified Japanese man was killed in front of Kinshasa's central post office.
Intensive localised firing was heard in several areas of central Kinshasa from early evening and lasted for several hours.
It died down around midnight when armoured vehicles from MONUC and the regular DRC army deployed in the city.
There was little traffic in Kinshasa on Monday morning.
Provisional results announced on Sunday evening by the independent electoral commission gave Kabila a little under 45 percent of the vote and Bemba just over 20 percent.
The two men will face each other in a run-off election on October 29. - Sapa-AFP
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