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 KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Heavy gunfire broke out in Congo's capital Thursday near the home of a former warlord who was second in last year's presidential vote, U.N. officials and witnesses said. Government soldiers deployed throughout the city, while residents fled in vehicles and on foot.
U.N. military spokesman Didier Rancher said there were fatalities but he did not give a figure. He said U.N. armored vehicles evacuated students stuck in schools and workers barricaded in office buildings. "Right now our priority is the living and the injured," he said.
A projectile — possibly a mortar shell — struck the Spanish Embassy, said a Spanish Foreign Ministry official in Madrid. No one was hurt, but the building was evacuated, the official said.
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