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At least 22 dead as western DRC violence rages

Mail & Guardian Online: "Clashes between separatists and police sent to impose order in the Democratic Republic of Congo's western Bas-Congo flared again on Tuesday, the official death toll rising to 22 after five days of violence.

Police, bolstered by hundreds of reinforcements, began battling members of the ethnic-based political and religious movement Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) in the town of Luozi, 200km west of the capital Kinshasa on Friday."

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