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Two killed in robbery of financial convoy in Kutu, DR Congo

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A robbery targeting a financial company’s convoy on National Road 17 left two people dead and one injured in Kutu, Maï-Ndombe province, DR Congo. Four others survived the attack, Actualité.cd reports.

Two people were killed, one was injured and four others survived when a convoy belonging to a financial company was robbed on National Road 17 in Kutu, Maï-Ndombe province, DR Congo. Actualité.cd reports the toll, without identifying the victims or specifying the circumstances of the attack.

The attack is part of a series of recent acts of violence in DR Congo. On 23 October, three travellers, including a journalist, were killed in an ambush in South Kivu, according to an earlier report by the outlet.

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