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Thursday, 6 January, 2000, 01:04 GMT
Guinea mediators go to clash region
A team of Guinean government mediators has gone to a south-western region following clashes between two rival groups over a land dispute.
Unconfirmed reports now say thirty people have been killed in fighting in the Macenta area.
Another forty are said to have been injured, many critically.
About seventy houses were burned down.
The security forces have been deployed and a curfew imposed.
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