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Fresh communal clashes in the southwest

    ABIDJAN

    Clashes between Burkinabe migrants and Kru indigenes erupted at the weekend in Heke 19 in San Pedro Department, southwestern Cote d'Ivoire, the chief administrator of the area told IRIN on Monday.

    The clashes started on Friday when Kru villagers killed a number of Burkinabe. The regional authorities were still trying to determine the death toll, according to San Pedro's prefect, Assi Abaka Moise. He said the migrants killed one Kru in a retaliatory attack on Sunday. There was no information available on the cause of the conflict, which occurred a few kilometres from the village of Trahe, where three persons - two Burkinabe and one Kru - were killed on 28 August.

    Hundreds of people - Kru, Ivoirians from other parts of the country and Burkinabe - were displaced following the clash in Trahe, located about 400 km west of Abidjan.

    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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