13 dead in various incidents after panic caused by shooting in DR Congo

‘Over a dozen people have lost their lives in various incidents that followed a shooting in the troubled eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a local official says.
The development occurred in the Congolese city of Beni on Saturday when a drunken soldier in civilian clothes fired four shots from his gun, causing panic among a crowd, according to Beni’s mayor, Jean Edmond Nyonyi.
“Eight people drowned when they threw themselves in the river, four were killed in accidents and one person died of a heart attack,” Nyonyi said, without elaborating.’
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