New fighting breaks out in Central African Republic, four killed

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New fighting breaks out in Central African Republic, four killed

Heavy weapons fire broke out overnight in Muslim suburbs of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, and health workers reported at least four dead in the new outbreak of violence. Only isolated incidents of fighting have been reported in the capital this month and many French and African Union forces have fanned out into the surrounding countryside in an attempt to curb inter-communal clashes elsewhere. Most of the Muslims who once lived in Bangui, in the south of the former French colony, have now fled towards the northern border with Chad, creating a de facto partition. But in a break from the relative calm in Bangui, a Reuters witness heard heavy weapons fire overnight and sporadic shooting in the mostly Muslim suburbs of PK-5 and PK-3.

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