200 reportedly die in deserted town
March 10, 2003
Chicago Tribune

DUEKOUE, IVORY COAST -- The French army in Ivory Coast said Sunday that it had found corpses and signs of serious violence against civilians at a deserted rebel-held town, where a rebel leader said 200 civilians had been butchered.

Ousmane Coulibaly said he believed more than 200 civilians were killed in Friday's attack on Bangolo, about 375 miles northwest of Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan. He blamed the attack on Liberian mercenaries allied with President Laurent Gbagbo's army.

A senior French military source in western Ivory Coast said Sunday that Coulibaly's figure could be accurate. France has more than 3,000 troops in its former colony where civil war broke out in September after a failed coup.

The fighting came as rebels and feuding politicians finally agreed in Ghana to set up a joint security council and form a new government by March 14.

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