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Luanshya Residents Riot Over Shooting Of Zambian Truck Driver In DRC
LUANSHYA residents Sunday ran amok, destroying Congolese-owned shops following the killing of Zambian truck driver Patrick Mwila by a Congolese soldier in that country on Thursday.
The body of Mwila, 30, a resident of Mikomfwa D section in Luanshya, arrived Sunday from Congo and taxi drivers started protests early in the morning, moving with full-beam headlamps on their cars.
Mikomfwa residents joined in the protests, blocking roads and setting tyres ablaze while targeting shops owned by Congolese nationals at Buseko market.
Police fired tear gas canisters to disperse the protestors which became more hostile.
Overwhelmed by the hostilities, police officers, who were using a Toyota Land Cruiser, desperately fired more canisters within the compounds. The action further incensed the residents, who pelted the police with stones and any objects they could lay their hands on.
“Zambia is our country, we are a free nation. Congolese are always killing our people and you come and start throwing tear gas in our homes. You will kill all of us and there will be no peace,” an angry woman shouted at the police as she dared them to run over her whilst holding the bull bar of the police vehicle.
Police, who seemed to have run out of tear gas, fired shots in the air to disperse the crowd, which was now growing bigger.
Police retreated with a view to reinforcing its presence whilst taxi drivers, who had covered their cars with fresh tree branches, continued speeding around the compounds.
Whilst all this was going on, protestors claimed that Mwila was being buried at the graveyard.
Posted by Editor
on February 3, 2014. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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February 3, 2014 at 8:52 am
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gile
February 3, 2014 at 9:37 am
you are just an ***** what has your herbs got to do with the truck driver are you from DRC
traitor
February 3, 2014 at 10:16 am
The congolese have gone beyond the limit and there is a need to tell them that Zambian drivers are innocent travellers who should be respected and appreciated
FuManchu
February 3, 2014 at 5:40 pm
For how long will this wanton disregard for good neighborliness with Zambia always on the receiving end go on?
Shanji
February 4, 2014 at 1:56 pm
this has to stop I cant believe that the government is still allowing this insane act
THE OBSERVER
February 4, 2014 at 2:18 pm
WE HAVE A VERY WEAK ZAMBIAN GOVERNMENT IN PLACE, WHY CANT THEY ACT? ITS ALWAYS IN THE NAME OF “WE ARE CHRISTIAN NATION”YET OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS ARE BEING BUTCHERED LIKE GOATS IN CONGO, THIS IS SHEER MADNESS,WHEN WILL THIS HOSTILITY BY CONGO BE ABATED? THE SOLUTION IS SIMPLE, SIMPLY CLOSE THE BORDER AND CLOSELY WATCH WHO SUFFERS BETWEEN CONGO AND ZAMBIA!PERIOD.
MUNKOMWE FINISHED POLITICIAN
February 4, 2014 at 6:33 pm
WHAT IS THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN LT AND THIS PERSON ADVERTIZING HIS USELESS MEDICINE? LT YOU ARE BUSY PUBLISHING THIS NONSENSE ON BUT YOU SOME TIMES REFUSE TO PUBLISH OUR COMMENTS. E.G ON MWANDI POLICE POLICE STATION.
Brian muntanga
February 6, 2014 at 6:23 pm
We must revenge