The violence broke out early on Monday in the capital of Kinshasa, where gunfire could be heard in several neighborhoods.

Police blamed the fighting on the Bundu dia Mayala movement and police spokesperson Colonel Pierrot Mwanamputu said four of the sect members and eight others had been killed by stray bullets.

Two others were killed in related violence in southwestern DRC.

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