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| Guinean troops deployed after deadly ethnic clashes | Guinean troops deployed after deadly ethnic clashes |
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| Security forces have been deployed in the south-east of Guinea after at least 54 people died in ethnic clashes. | Security forces have been deployed in the south-east of Guinea after at least 54 people died in ethnic clashes. |
| A curfew is already in place in the country's second city, N'Zerekore. | A curfew is already in place in the country's second city, N'Zerekore. |
| The fighting spread from a nearby town where guards from the Guerze community beat to death an ethnic Konianke youth whom they had accused of stealing. | |
| Witnesses said some of the victims who died in the three days of violence were hacked to death with machetes or burned alive. | Witnesses said some of the victims who died in the three days of violence were hacked to death with machetes or burned alive. |
| 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. | 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. |
| Around 130 people were said to have been injured in the clashes. | Around 130 people were said to have been injured in the clashes. |
| Government spokesman Damantang Albert Camara told the Reuters news agency calm had been restored and about 50 people arrested. | Government spokesman Damantang Albert Camara told the Reuters news agency calm had been restored and about 50 people arrested. |
| Earlier reports said sporadic violence was continuing in surrounding rural areas. | Earlier reports said sporadic violence was continuing in surrounding rural areas. |
| Guinea has a long history of ethnic tension between the two groups, with clashes regularly breaking out over religious and other grievances. | Guinea has a long history of ethnic tension between the two groups, with clashes regularly breaking out over religious and other grievances. |
| The Guerze are mostly Christian or animist, while the Konianke are Muslims considered to be close to the Mandingo ethnic community who live in neighbouring countries. | The Guerze are mostly Christian or animist, while the Konianke are Muslims considered to be close to the Mandingo ethnic community who live in neighbouring countries. |
| 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 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. | 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. | 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. | "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. |
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