Christian Malanga, a US national of Congolese origin, the suspected plot leader, was killed during the attack.
Thirty-seven people - including three Americans, a Briton, a Belgian and a Canadian national - have been sentenced to death over an attempt to overthrow the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
His friend Tyler Thompson, was also given the death penalty. The pair, aged in their 20s, had played football together in Utah."We were in complete shock as to what was happening, and the unknown. Everything we were learning was what we were getting off Google," she said.Also sentenced to death was Jean-Jacques Wondo, a dual Congolese and Belgian citizen.
Witnesses say a group of about 20 assailants in army uniform attacked the palace and an exchange of gunfire followed. Malanga was shot dead in the attack after resisting arrest, said army spokesperson Brig Gen Sylavin Ekenge.
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