ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – Police fired up on demonstrators at an anti-government rally Friday, killing 5 people and wounding a dozen others in Ivory Coast's newest protest as the president dissolved the government 1 week ago, the opposition said.Demonstrations reach to at least 8 cities in the West African nation on Friday. Moussa Dembele of the resistance RDR party said the deadly protest took place in Gagnoa, about 125 miles northwest of the economic capital, Abidjan.
President Laurent Gbagbo had set a Friday target to form a new government but the prime minister on Thursday evening asked for a 48-hour addition. Dembele said late Wednesday that the death toll had enlarged to 5 people, from 3 earlier in the day. "The police were aiming straight at the protesters," he said. "These weren't stray bullets."
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