'Coup bid will not derail' Congo

Captives were presented to the press, but it is unclear who they are

The alleged weekend coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo will not disrupt the timetable for holding elections, the government has said.

Foreign Minister Antoine Ghonda said Sunday's attacks were "isolated incidents" and polls would still be held as planned next year.

Two government soldiers were killed and several injured in the attacks.

Meanwhile, a South Africa peacekeeper has been shot dead in the volatile eastern town of Bukavu, the UN says.

A peace deal in December 2002 ended five years of war, but much of the east remains unstable with many armed gangs roaming around.

Some 10,000 UN peacekeepers have been deployed.

On the run

Mr Ghonda also denounced the "destabilising impulses of some splinter groups," without naming them.

Some officials have blamed members of former guard of the country's late ruler, Mobutu Sese Seko for the attacks on military installations and state media headquarters.

Fifteen suspected attackers have been arrested and around 18 are believed to still be on the run.

The transitional power-sharing government is supposed to make way for a democratically elected government to be chosen in June 2005.

The BBC's Arnaud Zajtman in Kinshasa says this is the first time since beginning of the war that fighting has broken out in the heart of the capital.

The government now has more challenges ahead, he says.