Belgium hands over tooth to family of Congo independence hero

Roland Lumumba speaks with the media as he arrives for a ceremony during which the remains of his late father, Democratic Republic of the Congo's first Prime Minister Patrice Emery Lumumba, are symbolically handed over to the murdered leader's children and to an official delegation, at the Egmont Palace in Brussels, Belgium, June 20, 2022. Olivier Matthys/Pool via REUTERS

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

Lumumba became the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) first democratically elected prime minister after independence from Belgium in 1960, but alarmed the West with overtures to Moscow at the height of the Cold War.