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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.

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