(22 Aug 2006)
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1. One of Jean-Pierre Bemba's supporters throws stone at passing UN jeep
2. Wide shot of Bemba's supporters throwing stones
3. Bemba supporters running down road
4. Street vendor runs away from supporters
5. Congolese police jeep drives down road to disperse Bemba supporters
6. Soldier's boot on ground
7. Dead soldier loyal to President Laurent Kabila lying on pavement
8. Four UN armoured personnel carriers driving down main road on patrol
9. Mid shot of road
STORYLINE:
Troops loyal to the two final candidates in the Democratic Republic of Congo's historic elections battled for a second day on Monday.
The fighting, around the home of President Joseph Kabila's challenger Jean-Pierre Bemba, trapped top diplomats inside until they were evacuated by UN peacekeepers.
The envoys included the head of the world body's 17,500-troop peacekeeping mission, William Swing, and diplomats from the United States, France, China and other countries.
Congo's army has ordered all troops in Kinshasa to lay down arms as the United Nations sent scores of peacekeepers in armoured vehicles to take the foreign diplomats from Bemba's home.
On Sunday Bemba's supporters, who accuse the UN of favouring President Kabila to win the election, stoned UN vehicles.
They have alleged the voting was rigged in Kabila's favour.
Bemba, who won 20 percent of the votes, now faces Kabila, who won 45 percent of the votes, in a second-round vote.
Representatives for Bemba - who led a rebel faction in Congo's wars and is now a vice president in the postwar
national-unity government - said support for their candidate was strong enough to overcome the alleged vote-tampering.
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