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Government protests aerial bombing

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    Guinea-Bissau protested to Senegal on Wednesday for what it said was the aerial bombing of the northern border areas of Cutima and Jumbembem between 96 km and 112 km northeast of the capital, Bissau, Lusa reported.

    "The Senegalese military planes were allegedly pursuing rebels of the Movement of Casamance Democratic Forces," Lusa said.

    Guinea-Bissau Defence Minister Fernando Correia Ladim told Lusa that an estimate of casualties was not yet available but that investigations into Tuesday's raid, which he termed an accident, were continuing.

    However, MFDC spokesman Alexandre Djiba told IRIN on Thursday his movement had no guerrillas in the zones bombed. He did, however, acknowledge that fighting had resumed on Monday in Kolda and that the Mouvement des forces democratiques de Casamance (MFDC) would meet later today to ascertain who
    started the shooting. The Senegalese army headquarters said that "an enemy" attacked its position at Sare Wari, in the Kolda Region on Monday.

    Djiba blamed the Senegalese media for always "spreading the lie" that MFDC guerrillas raid Casamance from Guinea-Bissau.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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