Congolese police have arrested six people over a break-in and vandalism earlier this week at the mausoleum of the country’s assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa.

Authorities in Congo have launched an investigation after the mausoleum keeping the tooth of Patrice Lumumba was vandalized.

The gold-capped tooth of Patrice Lumumba, the Democratic Republic of Congo's independence hero, is safe and has not been stolen, his daughter has told the BBC. The news comes as a relief to a nation gripped by fear that the only remains of the country’s revered first prime minister had been swiped after his mausoleum in the capital,

Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba has been vandalized.