About 50 people were injured during riots in the town of Labé in
northern Guinea when the people who were protesting a shake-up in the
civil service clashed with security forces, the government said on
Wednesday.
Reuters report:
Labé is a stronghold of opposition to President Alpha
Condé, who came to power in 2010 as the country’s first democratically
elected leader after decades in which the country was ruled by
authoritarian figures.
Around 24 members of the security forces and 25 civilians were hurt
in the riots that started on Monday and vandals damaged public and
private property, government spokesman Damantang Albert Camara said in a
statement. The riots were apparently triggered by a government move to
shift civil servants entrenched in Labé to locations in other parts of
the country.
“The Government believes that the violence, which included the
destruction of private and public property in Labe, was out of
proportion with the stated demands of the protesters,” the statement
said. Youths burned tires and the police sent reinforcements to restore
calm, said witnesses and a police source who declined to be identified.
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50 Injured In Riots In Northern Guinea
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