Madagascar Death Toll Rockets As Authorities
Shoot Femonstrators -- The Telegraph
Shoot Femonstrators -- The Telegraph
Almost 30 people were killed and over 200 injured when presidential guards opened fire on protestors in Madagascar as unrest on the Indian Ocean island rose to new heights.
A huge crowd demonstrating against president Marc Ravalomanana was marching on his palace in Antananarivo at the weekend when its defenders began shooting.
"In the city's three main hospitals, we counted 28 dead and 212 wounded," said the national police spokesman Captain Lala Rakotonirina, while one medical official said 90 per cent of the injured had suffered bullet wounds.
Amid a tense calm the street leading to the president's office was blocked off by security forces on Sunday. The street was littered with orange shoes and caps – the colour of the opposition party led by Andry Rajoelina.
Violence first broke out in Madagascar, the world's biggest vanilla producer, two weeks ago, when more than 60 people died amid rioting and looting, many of them in a department store that was burned down.
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