Kinshasa, October 1st,2025 (CPA).- Fifteen (15) pupils have been hit after a tear gas grenade have been set off on Tuesday in a classroom at Saint Fabrina College, located in the Kindele-Mabanga neighbourhood of Mont-Ngafula, a municipality in western Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, according to information obtained on Wednesday from administrative sources. « I was personally alerted at the time of the incident. In my presence, an ambulance arrived to evacuate the affected students. Eight were taken to the University Clinics of Kinshasa, three to Monkole Hospital and four to the Hermine Health Centre. The three pupils treated at Monkole were able to return to their families that same evening, while the others are still in hospital this morning, » has said Severin Lumbu, burgomaster of the municipality of Mont-Ngafula, before announcing that investigations are underway to establish who was responsible. ‘A scene of panic broke out in the courtyard of the Saint Fabrina secondary school in Mont-Ngafula, causing several pupils to faint and be rushed to various hospitals in the city,’ he has said. Henry Kahanga, municipal councillor of Mont-Ngafula, in charge of the peace and security commission. For his part,
Henry Kahanga, municipal councillor in charge of the peace and security commission, has said that ‘an extremely serious incident occurred yesterday [Tuesday] at Saint Fabrina College. A tear gas grenade was set off in the middle of a class, and several pupils were hospitalised’. According to him, the alleged perpetrator is a 19-year-old student in his fourth year of secondary school, identified as the son of a police officer, who brought a tear gas grenade into the school grounds before activating it in the middle of the classroom. The perpetrator was immediately arrested and taken to the Bianda neighbourhood police station, also in Mont-Ngafula. This incident comes just days after a student from the same school injured a classmate with a machete that had been brought onto the school grounds.