Three killed in attack on Ivory Coast road block
Source: Reuters
ABIDJAN, Jan 12 (Reuters) - At least three members of Ivory Coast's security forces were shot dead in an attack on check points close to the border with Ghana early on Friday, military and local council sources said. A local council worker in the town of Aboisso, close to the border, told Reuters two military police officers and a customs officer were killed. Another seven security forces had been injured, four of them seriously, he said. He said the attack appeared to be an act of banditry rather than politically motivated. The West African state has been divided into a rebel-held north and government south since a brief 2002-03 civil war that began after a failed coup. "I confirm there were at least three killed in the attack this morning at the border with Ghana," a military official at the army headquarters in the main city Abidjan said. "Our forces are leading (search) operations in the area even if the situation is now under control," he told Reuters. One gendarme posted near to the border said two attackers had been arrested. He said the attacks had targeted the main border post with Ghana and a smaller check point several km (miles) inland.
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