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Guinea's N'Zerekore city hit by Guerze-Konianke clashes Guinean troops deployed after deadly ethnic clashes
(about 14 hours later)
At least 12 people have been killed and 50 wounded in ethnic clashes in Guinea's second city, N'Zerekore, officials say. Security forces have been deployed in the south-east of Guinea after at least 54 people died in ethnic clashes.
A curfew has been declared in the city of about 300,000 people, officials said. A curfew is already in place in the second-biggest city, N'Zerekore.
Conflict erupted when guards from the Guerze ethnic group killed a man from the rival Konianke group whom they accused of stealing, reports say. The fighting spread from a nearby town where guards from the Guerze tribe beat to death a rival ethnic Konianke youth they had accused of stealing.
Guinea has a long history of ethnic tension between the two groups. Witnesses said some of the victims who died in the three days of violence were hacked to death with machetes or burned alive.
'Beaten to death' Authorities had initially put the death toll at 12 but the figure rose sharply as bodies were collected from the streets of N'Zerekore on Wednesday.
Following the violence, President Alpha Conde called for unity in run-up to long-delayed elections due in September. Around 130 people were said to have been injured in the clashes.
"The town of N'Zerekore has witnessed events resulting in a loss of human life, several wounded and important damage to property. Faced with this situation, I call on the population for calm," Reuters news agency quotes him as saying in an address on national television. Government spokesman Damantang Albert Camara told the Reuters news agency calm had been restored and about 50 people arrested.
Hospital official Alpha Saliou Sow said 11 people had been killed by Tuesday afternoon, the Associated Press news agency reports. Earlier reports said sporadic violence was continuing in surrounding rural areas.
A hospital doctor in N'Zerekore, Francois Lamah, said "some were burned alive". Guinea has a long history of ethnic tension between the two groups, with clashes regularly breaking out over religious and other grievances.
"Others were cut with machetes. We are not able to manage. This situation is beyond us," the AFP news agency quotes him as saying.
According to AP, the violence first broke out on Monday in the nearby village of Koule before spreading to N'Zerekore, some 570km (350 miles) south-east of the capital, Conakry.
Petrol station guards from the Guerze ethnic group allegedly beat to death a young Konianke man whom they accused of stealing, it reports.
Army Capt Pepe Koivogui confirmed that a curfew had been imposed in N'Zerekore try to restore calm.
Clashes between the two groups regularly break out over religious and other grievances, AFP reports.
The Guerze are mostly Christian or animist, while the Konianke are Muslims considered to be close to neighbouring Liberia's Mandingo ethnic community.The Guerze are mostly Christian or animist, while the Konianke are Muslims considered to be close to neighbouring Liberia's Mandingo ethnic community.
The latest violence first erupted on Monday in the village of Koule before spreading to nearby N'Zerekore, some 570km (350 miles) south-east of the capital, Conakry.
The army imposed a curfew in the city of about 300,000 to try to restore calm.
On Tuesday, President Alpha Conde made a televised appeal for calm and called for unity in the run-up to long-delayed elections due in September.
"The town of N'Zerekore has witnessed events resulting in a loss of human life, several wounded and damage to property. Faced with this situation, I call on the population for calm," he said in the national address.