Violence was rife in northern Bangui Thursday
Bangui, Central Africa, 01/07- Security forces on Thursday shot and
killed a woman in Gobongo after crowd had set fire to two bars owned by
two close associates of President Francois Bozize of the Central African
Republic (CAR) in the Gabongo residential area north of the capital,
Bangui.
Demonstrators who were returning from the cemetery decided to
avenge the death by setting fire to two bars owned by lieutenant Celestin
Dogo, who belongs to the presidential guard and by Francis Bozize, the
President`s son and his private secretary at the ministry of defence.
The two bars were located near Gobongo market along the Independence
Avenue.
Anti-riot police officers monitored the enraged men and women who were
waging palm branches on their return from the cemetery where they had
attended the burial of sergeant Jean-Claude Sanze, who was shot dead
by members of the presidential guard on Tuesday.
The incidents are an off-shoot of last Monday`s killing of lieutenant
Wilfried Yango-Kapita in a scuffle started by sergeant Sanze. Members of
the presidential guard later shot Sanze to death after taking him out of
custody where he was being held at the gendarmerie. |