Three people has been confirmed dead in a clash between police and former rebels who had blocked the road into Bouake, on Tuesday.
The rebels Inside Sources gathered blocked the road leading Bouake, Ivory Coast’s second biggest city to demand government compensation payments,
Three bloodied bodies were brought into the main Bouake hospital the morning shortly after police in stepped in to clear the protesters who had blocked off the southern road into Bouake on Monday.
Information made available to Inside Sources disclosed that trouble started few days after a crippling four-day army mutiny staged by other former rebels who joined the army in 2011, when peace returned after a decade of violence that had split the country in two.
Those mutineers ended their protests and returned to barracks last week after reaching an agreement with the government in a pay dispute.
But other former rebels who disarmed and did not join the army are now demanding identical compensation payments from the government which led to the death of three people.
