Police shoot Ivory Coast protesters

POLICE fired on demonstrators at an anti-government rally yesterday, killing five and wounding a dozen others in Ivory Coast's latest protest since the president dissolved the government a week ago, the opposition said.

By The Newsroom

Published 19th Feb 2010, 21:12 BST

Updated 19th Feb 2010, 21:26 BST

Moussa Dembele, of the opposition RDR party, said the protest took place in Gagnoa, about 125 miles north-west of the economic capital, Abidjan.

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