Cote d'Ivoire: At Least Four Soldiers Reportedly Killed By Gunmen At Police Stations in Abidjan

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A prominent report on the Abidjan.net website states that at least four soldiers were killed and many others were wounded over the weekend as unidentified gunmen attacked a police station in the Yopougon neighborhood of Abidjan. The report quotes eyewitnesses, who said that the police station was attacked by a commando team made up of five or six people. The report further states that the assailants escaped after the attacks.

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