At least 41 killed as Ivory Coast peace challenged

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At least 41 killed as Ivory Coast

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Wednesday, June 1, 2005 Posted: 3:18 PM EDT (1918 GMT)

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (Reuters)

-- Attackers shot, hacked or burned to death at least 41 people in western

Ivory Coast on Wednesday, the army said, sending hundreds fleeing and raising

fears of revenge killings in a region where ethnic tensions run high.

The killings on the outskirts of the cocoa-rich town of Duekoue left many injured and

underscored the fragility of the latest push for peace in the West African

nation where a civil war has ebbed and flowed since 2002.

Etienne Koulai, who works for Duekoue's General Hospital, said they had

registered more than 52 dead and 71 injured.

Residents said they feared more violence in an area that has

been one of the war's bloodiest battlefields.

Army spokesman Lt. Col. Jules Yao Yao said 41 people were

shot, knifed or set on fire in Wednesday's attack, one of the deadliest bursts

of violence in recent months. He quoted witnesses as saying 11 of the dead had

been locked in their huts and burned alive. Sixty-four people were injured.

Those killed on Wednesday were members of the Guere local

tribe and lived in Guitrozon and Petit Duekoue, two villages on the edge of Duekoue.

Witnesses said homes were smashed and burnt. Gasoline canisters lay outside the

torched ruins.

" People were sleeping and they were surprised. Armed

men poured petrol on the homes. I saw broken and burnt homes, " said Daniel

By Smith, a bailiff who spoke to Reuters by telephone from Guitrozon. He said

he could see burnt bodies in some homes.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/06/01/ivory.coast.reut/index.html

 

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