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 KINSASHA, Congo (AP) - A failed presidential candidate whom Congo's government accuses of attempting an insurrection claimed Monday he was targeted in an assassination plot that triggered a round of fighting, leaving more than 100 dead in the capital.
"Eleven o'clock in the morning the firing started. It was something well prepared," Jean-Pierre Bemba told The Associated Press by telephone from the South African Embassy in Kinshasa, where he has taken refuge since fighting first broke out Thursday. Bemba said two battalions of government troops surrounded his house before the firing started.
"It's political," Bemba said. "Do you believe that someone who wants to organize an insurrection will keep his children and wife in town? It's nonsense. When the fighting started I was with my wife in my house and my children were at school."
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