The body of assassinated Congo President Laurent Kabila has left the Zimbabwe capital of Harare for his home city of Lubumbashi, where it will lie in state.
The body of Kabila - who was shot by a soldier on Tuesday then flown to Harare for medical treatment amid confusion abroad over whether he was alive or dead - will stay in the southern Congo city of Lubumbashi until tomorrow before going to Kinshasa for burial next Tuesday.
Kabila's gold and white coffin, draped in a Congolese flag, was taken on a gun carriage to Harare airport today.
In Kinshasa, the slain president's son Major-General Joseph Kabila, in one of his first acts after being made interim head of state, ordered payment of the salaries of civil servants and soldiers.
Non-payment of salaries is seen as a possible motive for Kabila's so far unexplained murder by one of his own guards in his hilltop palace in Kinshasa.
Reuters