(Reuters) - Congo has opened an investigation into vandalism on Monday evening at the mausoleum housing the tooth - thought to be the only known remains - of independence hero Patrice Lumumba, the culture ministry said on Tuesday.
Lumumba, the Central African country's first democratically elected prime minister after independence from Belgium in 1960, was assassinated by a firing squad in 1961 after his government, which lasted only three months, was overthrown.