France 24
By News Wires
January 18, 2024
The head of the emergency room at the El Maarouf hospital in the Comoros capital Moroni told reporters that six wounded people had been admitted and that one 21-year-old had died, “very probably by gunshot”.
One of the wounded was in critical condition, Dr Djabir Ibrahim said.
Reports of the first serious casualties emerged two days after the electoral authorities announced President Azali Assoumani’s disputed re-election, triggering cat-and-mouse street battles between soldiers and angry opposition supporters.
Braving teargas and torrential rain, a man in his twenties, his face hidden by a surgical mask, told AFP on Thursday why violence has erupted once again on this Indian Ocean island chain.