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Gunmen attack airport in east Congo, at least one soldier dead

Congo: Gunmen attacked the airport in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's largest city, Goma, in an overnight raid that killed at least one government soldier, a local governor and a military official said on Tuesday.

Witnesses in the city, home to around 1 million people and capital of Congo's volatile North Kivu province, said they heard intermittent heavy gunfire for several hours beginning around 1 a.m. (2300 GMT, Monday).

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