Over 100 bodies found in Ivory Coast, says UN

About 60 were killed in one incident and about 40 people in another that appears to have been carried out by Liberian mercenaries, says Rupert Colville, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said "all the incidents appear at least partly ethnically motivated. The U.N. says more than 100 bodies have been found in Ivory Coast in the past 24 hours, some of them burnt alive. About 60 were killed in one incident and about 40 people in another that appears to have been carried out by Liberian mercenaries, says Rupert Colville, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said all the incidents appear at least partly ethnically motivated. He said there were still other reports of smallerscale killings in other places that have yet to be investigated. Mr. Colville said some of the victims were burnt alive while others were thrown down a well.

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