Fifty three people perished in Congo gunfight after prime minister resigns

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Fifty three people were killed in fighting between peacekeepers and Muslim Seleka rebels in northern Central African Republic hours after the Prime Minister and his Government resigned.

The spokesman for the French peacekeeping unit in Central African Republic said this in Bangui on Wednesday.

He said the Seleka fighters refused to follow a call to disarm, and instead attacked French and African soldiers in Batangfo, north of Bangui.