Maï-Ndombe: Two killed in attack on cash-in-transit vehicle on RN17

Two people—a police officer and a soldier assigned to protect the convoy—were killed and another person was wounded in an armed attack Sunday evening, October 25, on RN17 in Kutu territory, Maï-Ndombe. Armed men ambushed a SOFIBanque vehicle about six kilometres from Konkia as it carried funds from Isaka to Bandundu-ville, prompting an exchange of gunfire. Kutu civil society president Fidèle Lizorongo said the attackers took no money; the driver, a police officer and a soldier escaped unharmed. The victims’ bodies were taken to the morgue at Bandundu General Referral Hospital, and four occupants of the vehicle survived the attack.