Guinea News: Unprecedented violence hits capital and provinces
Posted on Tuesday, January 23 @ 21:44:39 EST by admin
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© Maseco Conde/IRIN
Guineans protesting against President Conte on Monday flee shooting by the army in central Conakry
CONAKRY, 22 Jan 2007 (IRIN) - Security forces shot dead at least 20 people on Monday as tens of thousands of Guineans turned out to demonstrate against President Lansana Conte in the biggest nationwide show of discontent in his 23-year rule.
In the capital, Conakry, violent clashes between protestors and the Guinean army were reported in most of the sprawling city’s suburbs, with protestors “pouring” into main city streets from as far as 20km outside the city centre, witnesses said. Eleven corpses with gunshot wounds were admitted to one city morgue, and six others to morgues elsewhere, hospital staff told IRIN. Three other people were reported killed in the often violent suburb of Hambaleye.
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