By RFIPosted on 04-11-2019Modified on 04-11-2019 at 19:39

Violent clashes took place in Conakry, Monday, November 4, during the funeral march that accompanied this morning, the bodies of victims of the demonstrations from October 14 to 16 last October. The march started from the Sino Guinean Hospital morgue at the Bambeto cemetery in the suburbs of Conakry.

At least one young man is shot dead, according to his family and medical sources. At least six people were also shot, according to the opposition. Several thousand people first followed the procession calmly, but things degenerated at the Bambeto roundabout.

Preceded by a compact and dense crowd, the funeral procession heads towards the mosque of Bambeto when the first clashes erupt at the roundabout.

The tear gas spreads in the mass, overheated by a burning sun. Young people replicate with stone throws. The panic is total. Water cannons come into action. Barricades are erected, tires burned.

The eleven bodies still enter the mosque, followed by the main leaders of the political opposition.

During the prayer, the vice tightens on the place of worship, but the demonstrators manage to leave the coffins, each covered with a Guinean flag.

They take the direction of the cemetery .... new shots are fired ... then the police eventually retreat before the crowd.

Many wounded - some unconscious - are evacuated by the Red Cross and private vehicles. We hear a lot of shots. Gendarmes and policemen return to the neighborhoods armed with fronds and stones. Two witnesses also speak of firearms. They force the doors of the concessions and make arrests.

The clashes were still continuing in the late afternoon.

If no official report is available yet, police announce the imminent press briefing.

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