BANGUI: A weekend of violence and looting in the Central African capital has left at least 10 people dead, witnesses and a humanitarian official said yesterday , including two more gruesome lynchings of minority Muslims.
Fighting broke out Saturday evening between Christian vigilantes and Muslims in the west of Bangui where many buildings were torched, they said.
A resident said that the Muslim killer of a Christian woman was lynched and killed before his body was burned and deposited in front of the local town hall.
A suspected Christian militiaman killed another Muslim civilian, and was about to burn the body when Rwandan soldiers of the African peacekeeping force MISCA shot him dead, a witness who gave his name as Innocent said. The shooting prompted an angry crowd to shout slogans against the Rwandan soldiers, whom they mistakenly believed to be Muslim. “Death to the Rwandans,” one shouted, according to Innocent.
AFP
