The attempted coup, led by US national Christian Malanga, took place in the early hours of Sunday in the Gombe area of the capital, near the Palais de la Nation that houses the president s offices.
Congo's army says it has ''foiled a coup'' early Sunday morning and arrested the perpetrators, including several foreigners, following a shootout between armed men in military uniform and a top politician's guards that left three people dead in the capital, Kinshasa