Posted on 12/30/2020 1:02:40 AM PST by xomething
Two days of communal clashes in southeast Guinea have left at least 11 people dead and more than 40 wounded, officials said Sunday.
The violence between mostly Muslim Tomas Mania and mostly animist Tomas was sparked Saturday by the unveiling of a new house for the Tomas patriarch in the town of Macenta, local sources told AFP.
Police reinforcements from neighbouring towns failed to stop the fighting Sunday and several of their number had been injured, a prefectural source said.
Witnesses said many residents had fled and taken shelter in the surrounding forest.
Eleven corpses were brought to the local hospital between Saturday and Sunday, according to regional governor Mohamed Ghare.
Kaba Conde, the director of the hospital, said most could not be identified due to injuries sustained from machetes, clubs and stones.
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You mean like Odumbo’s Marine corpses?
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