[Soweto Live] DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi ordered a probe into Delphin Kahimbi's death.DR Congo's sacked former deputy chief of military intelligence, who was under European Union sanctions, died by hanging, President Felix Tshisekedi said Saturday.
Delphin Kahimbi, 50, a close associate of former president Joseph Kabila, had died of a heart attack on February 28 at home in Kinshasa, his wife and media reports said.
But rumours abounded that he was killed or committed suicide.
Tshisekedi ordered a probe into the death, and the preliminary findings were made public on Saturday after a cabinet meeting.
"According to the evidence ... it turns out to be a hanging," a statement quoted the president as saying.