Monrovia — Sam Bockarie, a former rebel commander from Sierra Leone who was being sought for war crimes by a UN-backed special court, has been killed in a shoot-out on the Liberian border with Cote d'Ivoire, the Liberian government said on Tuesday.
Defence Ministry spokesman Philibert Browne said Bockarie's body had been taken to a funeral parlour in the capital Monrovia and would be displayed there on Wednesday.
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