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Belgium hands over DR Congo independence hero’s tooth to family

Late former Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba (1925 - 1961) at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, 2nd August 1960 [File: Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images]

Belgian authorities have handed over a tooth, the only known remains of the murdered Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba, to his family during a ceremony in Brussels.

Lumumba became the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) first democratically elected prime minister after independence from Belgium in 1960.

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