The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced on Wednesday the death of four Ivorian Red Cross volunteers in Toulepleu, a town in western Cote d'Ivoire.
The four men, Gonzreu Kloueu, his son Thierry, Te Goue and Vally Camara, had been missing since 12 January. "Their bodies have been found and identified," the ICRC said in a statement in which it expressed its deepest condolences to the victims' families and called for an inquiry into their deaths. It called for "new security guarantees enabling Red Cross personnel to pursue their efforts to meet the urgent needs of people living in the Toulepleu area".
Toulepleu is located in an area along Cote d'Ivoire's border with Liberia that has been plagued in recent weeks by clashes involving pro- and anti-government forces. It is just a few kilometres from Toe Town in Liberia where three staff members of the ADRA relief agency were killed earlier this month in clashes between Liberian government troops and rebels.
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