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Liberia seals Ivory Coast border after UN attacked

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10-06-2012 | 01:42

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Liberia seals Ivory Coast border after UN attacked

Ivorian government forces vowed Saturday to hunt down those responsible for an ambush that killed at least seven U.N. peacekeepers, while Liberia sealed its border amid fears that the gunmen had used the country to stage the cross-border attack.

Liberian Information Minister Lewis Brown said the president had ordered the immediate deployment of the armed forces to the border in the wake of Friday's attack near the Ivorian town of Tai, which also left at least eight civilians dead and sent hundreds of people fleeing the area.

Human Rights Watch has said that militants have staged several cross-border attacks from Liberia, leaving at least 40 people dead in the last year. The violence has been blamed on mercenaries and militiamen who fought for ex-Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and then fled across the porous border into Liberia's forests, following his arrest last year.

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