C.Africa clash left seven dead: UN toll

Bangui (Central African Republic) (AFP) - Clashes between French peacekeepers deployed in the restive Central African Republic and unidentified gunmen earlier this week have left seven people dead, the UN mission in the country said Saturday. The French soldiers were on patrol in the capital's mainly Muslim PK5 district when they were shot at late Thursday, triggering a riposte, an official in the African peacekeeping force MISCA had said earlier. However the spokesman for the Muslim community in PK5, Abakar Moustapha, said five residents had been killed and several other people wounded. "French soldiers were searching a house suspected to be an arms cache in the Cameroonian district (of the PK5) when they were attacked by angry youths because the Senegalese owner of the house is not in Bangui," he said.

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