Demonstrators gather at the Kinshasa Grand market on June 9, 2020 to ask for the re-opening of the shops around there which has been closed by the government as a precautionary measure against the spr
ead of the COVID-19 coronavirus. - At least three people were reported dead by local authorities.
Police said they fired warning shots to disperse the protesters who gathered at the site on Tuesday to demand the reopening of the Kinshasa market, AFP reporters said.A spokesman for the Kinshasa provincial government said two people were electrocuted while another was crushed to death by the fleeing crowd after “trouble by people pretending to be trade unionists” from the market.
“Those responsible for these riots have been arrested” for having violated state of emergency measures imposed to combat the virus.Demonstrators had stood their ground behind barriers that have since early April cut off the Gombe area housing the market as part of the fight against the spread of the coronavirus.A governorate spokesperson, Belise Okonda, denied rumours the market was being knocked down.
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