Similarly, the whereabouts and condition of some 120,000 other residents who fled southern Brazzaville toward the Pool region further south remain unknown and this is a source of growing concern, humanitarian sources said. Aid agencies fear that conflict in the Pool region itself has resulted in large-scale damage to infrastructure, widespread looting and massive population displacements. However, they have not had access to the Pool since fighting erupted there in October 1998. The estimated population of the area before the latest conflict was about 200,000.
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