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Fresh rebel attack in Central Africa
Armed herdsmen and fighters from the mainly Muslim former rebel Seleka movement attacked the southern town of Ngakobo, some 30 kilometres outside Bambari, on Saturday, "firing on sight" at houses, a police ******r told AFP on condition of a**nymity. "At least three people were killed and several more injured," he added, adding hundreds of local people had fled their homes for neighbouring villages. Isaac Gonaba, a teacher, said a fellow teacher was among the dead and indicated two employees from the local Sucaf sugar factory had also been killed. Other residents reported the situation as calm Sunday but that armed men were still in the vicinity. Ngakobo saw a spate of attacks during two years of widespread unrest between 2013 and 2015 which saw about half a million people displaced after the ousting of long-serving president Francois Bozize, a Christian by a Seleka-led rebel alliance. During that period Seleka fighters sacked and occupied the sugar plant for a year before it finally reopened in mid-2014. أكثر... 
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