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Congo police fire tear gas at opposition supporters

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AFP Paris
Riot police in Congo used tear gas to disperse 200 opposition supporters who were trying to get into a polling station during counting in the country's presidential election, an AFP journalist saw.

Dozens of heavily armed police yesterday fired tear gas at the supporters of opposition candidate Guy-Brice Parfait Kolelas and chased them away from the polling station in the south of the capital Brazzaville.

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First Published: Mar 21 2016 | 2:48 AM IST

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