50 killed in Ivory Coast clashes
AFP, Abidjan
Men armed with machetes and rifles stormed two western Ivory Coast villages overnight, killing at least 50 people in what security forces and local officials described Wednesday as ethnic clashes. "The bodies of 50 people, all of them Guere, have been taken to hospital," said Marcel Djahi, mayor of Duekoue, a town in the loyalist southwest considered a tinderbox for the ethnic and communal violence that has marked the three-year conflict in Ivory Coast. An official death toll of 41 has been confirmed, with some 64 people injured, said armed forces spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jules Yao Yao.
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