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Monrovia denies attacks on Guinean villages

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    Liberia has denied claims that its troops attacked three Guinean villages over the weekend, killing 28 people, news organisations reported.

    AFP quotes Defence Minister Daniel Chea as saying that the Liberian government "knows nothing about the attack" and its troops were not involved in the reported agression.

    A Guinean source told IRIN the alleged attack occurred on Friday in the Macenta area, near Guinea's border with Liberia. The source claimed that a Liberian soldier was captured.

    Efforts by IRIN to obtain information from the Guinean Defence Ministry proved fruitless.

    The Guinean allegation came in the wake of repeated claims by Monrovia that insurgents who staged attacks in the northwest Liberian county of Lofa in August came from Guinea, which the Guinean authorities have denied.

    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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