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Pro-Gbagbo militia killed 220 people in Ivory Coast: government

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After being chased out of their stronghold in the main city Abidjan on May 4, the fleeing Gbagbo forces committed "atrocities in the southwest of our country," said Patrick Achi.

As they went towards the Liberian border "these killers without faith or law targetted everyone, women, men, children, whom they came across," he said.

The violence left a "a macabre total of 220 people killed and 17 injured," he added.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011