19:43 ET<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\nFour people have been killed by unidentified gunmen in Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjan.<\/p>\n
Witnesses said attackers arrived in a taxi at a roadblock in the Cocody suburb and opened fire.<\/p>\n
The city has seen heavy fighting between supporters of disputed President Laurent Gbagbo and those of his rival, Alassane Ouattara.<\/p>\n
Clashes have spread to new areas recently, raising fears of a return to civil war.<\/p>\n
Scores of people have been killed in violence since presidential elections in November, which resulted in a political stalemate.<\/p>\n
Mr Gbagbo refuses to step down, although Mr Outtara is widely recognised as the winner of the election.<\/p>\n
Marco Abade, a resident, told Reuters he had heard a “burst of shooting” near a roadblock set up by youths loyal to Mr Gbagbo, behind the local supermarket. <\/p>\n
“We heard screaming and there were four bodies of youths on the road,” Mr Abade said.<\/p>\n
There were conflicting reports from witnesses about whether the victims were members of the pro-Gbagbo militia or those loyal to Mr Ouattara.<\/p>\n
‘Last chance’<\/span><\/p>\n“I saw three people get out of a taxi, machine gun in hand; they started firing at passers-by, it was horrible,” one resident told AFP, adding that the attackers fled in the same taxi.<\/p>\n
On Monday, forces backing Mr Ouattara attacked suporters of Mr Gbagbo in Abidjan.<\/p>\n
It marked the first instance of fighting in the pro-Gbagbo suburb of Yopougon and the pro-Ouattara area of Adjame since the stand-off began.<\/p>\n
Fighting has also spread to the west, across a north-south ceasefire line in place since the end of the 2002-2003 war.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Mr Ouattara said he was offering Mr Gbagbo a “last chance” to leave the presidency and end the country’s political crisis.<\/p>\n
Mr Ouattara has said he is willing to form a national unity government with Mr Gbagbo, as well as fuse the two rivals’ armed forces and create a truth and reconciliation commission.<\/p>\n
“It is time that he accepts the will of the Ivorian people and the African Union,” Mr Ouattara said in an address to the nation on a television station he controls.<\/p>\n
More than 370,000 have also fled their homes in Abidjan, following recent clashes in pro-Ouattara districts.<\/p>\n
The election was supposed to reunite the country divided since the New Forces rebels seized the north in 2002.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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