Gunmen killed four people Tuesday near a roadblock manned by young supporters of Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo out in Abidjan district of Deux Plateaux, several witnesses reported.
"I'm not sure what happened but we heard a series of gunshots near the roadblock young Sococe behind the supermarket," said Marco Abad, a resident of a residential area north of economic capital.
"We heard screaming and there were four bodies of young people on the road," said Abad could not confirm if the dead were members of the pro-Gbagbo Young Patriots, who set up roadblocks across the city.
Fighting between supporters and those of Gabgbo of Alassane Ouattara, former Prime Minister regarded by the international community as the winner of the presidential election of November 28, raged for three weeks in the neighborhood
pro-Ouattara Abobo, further north, and this week moved closer to downtown.
Clashes also erupted in western countries, on both sides of the demarcation line established since the end of the civil war in 2003.
A spokesman for the government led by Alassane Ouattara said Monday that neither party insurgents to attack several areas of Abidjan, the rebels nor the north outside the scope of his authority.Patrick Achi added that there were apparently a lot of defectors from the army in their ranks.
General Mangou "ready for war '
The Chief of Staff of the Army, General Philippe Mangou, told the newspaper Notre Voie pro-Gbagbo on Tuesday that his troops were ready if necessary to the war.
"If it pushes us to war, we will," he said.
On Monday, pro-Ouattara fighters moved into the neighborhood of Adjame near the business center, where fighting has killed one person.They also launched two simultaneous attacks in Yopougon, a stronghold of Gbagbo.
"It was total war, with grenades and gunfire everywhere," said one resident told Reuters TV that the store was destroyed by the fighting.
Smoke escaped again Tuesday with several buildings of Williamsville, part of Adjame.The corpse of a civilian lying on the road to this neighborhood.
A team from Reuters was unable to go further due to a roadblock set up by young supporters of the president.
Met Tuesday in Paris, the foreign ministers of the G8 have supported Ouattara and Gbagbo threatened new sanctions if it refused to relinquish power.
Sunday, Pascal Affi N'Guessan, a close Laurent Gbagbo rejected a proposal Friday in Addis Ababa by a group of heads of state mandated by the African Union (AU) and of forming a unity government National
directed by Ouattara.
Laurent Gbagbo had declined the invitation to visit the Ethiopian capital to defend his record.Noting the failure of mediation attempts by the Heads of State, the AU finally demanded that Alassane Ouattara is installed in his functions as head of the Ivorian state.
Laurent Gbagbo, in power since 2000, refuses to give his presidential chair on the grounds that his victory in the second round of the presidential election was confirmed by a Constitutional Council which was granted.
The UN, however, certified the victory of his rival, also recognized by the AU and the Economic Community of West African States and the West by
Western powers like the United States and France, the former colonial power.
