Dozens of people were killed Sunday in clashes between fans at a football match in N’Zerekore, Guinea’s second largest city, hospital sources said, describing scenes of mass carnage.
“There are bodies lined up as far as the eye can see in the hospital. Others are lying on the floor in the hallways. The morgue is full,” one doctor said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
He said “there are around 100 dead”, with bodies filling the local hospital and morgue. Another doctor said there were “dozens of dead”.
Videos circulating on social media, which Agence France-Presse was unable to immediately verify, showed scenes of chaos in the street outside the match and numerous bodies lying on the ground.
Angry demonstrators also vandalised and set fire to the N’Zerekore police station, according to witnesses.