French Troops Fire on Ivorian Crowds

World | November 10, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00

French forces opened fire Tuesday as thousands of angry loyalists massed outside an evacuation post for foreigners. A local hospital reported seven people killed and 200 wounded in a fourth day of chaotic violence pitting France against its former prize colony. The bloodletting, overshadowing the launch of an African peace mission here, erupted at a one-time luxury hotel that French forces have commandeered as an rallying post for 1,300 French and other foreigners rescued from anti-French rampages across the largest city, Abidjan.

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