Liberia Factional Fighting Continues

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(15 May 1996) T/I: 10:07:50 • • • Calm returned to Monrovia on Wednesday (15/5) after a day of fierce factional violence that left at least two civilians and more than 15 fighters dead. The Liberian capital was gripped in fierce gun battles most of Tuesday (14/5) with faction fighters moving through the streets of the smoking wasteland that was once the city's thriving centre. Many of the dead, gunmen loyal to Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), were impaled with bayonets and lances by fighters of several factions dominated by the rival Krahn ethnic group. • • SHOWS: • • LIBERIA/SIERRA LEONE - 14/5 • • MONROVIA, LIBERIA • vs street fighting - NPFL fighters shooting • vs NPFL roadblock • vs street fighting • vs crowds of Liberian Peace Council fighters - armed boys, waving guns, cheering as they run through streets with weapons captured from NPFL • ws smoke over town • • FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE - 14/5 • ws boat docked in harbour • ms refugees leave boat • ws refugees wait on boat • • 2.31 • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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