Government forces in the Ivory Coast say they are now in control of the whole of the main city of Abidjan.<\/p>\n
Supporters of ousted President Laurent Gbagbo had been holding out in Yopougon district but a military commander said they had now been defeated.<\/p>\n
The district was the scene of heavy fighting during the struggle between Mr Gbagbo and President Alassane Ouattara.<\/p>\n
PM Guillaume Soro, visiting the site later, said the streets there were “littered with bodies”.<\/p>\n
“At the militia headquarters we saw an improvised cemetery. I can imagine the slaughter that took place,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I’m still under shock after seeing all these dead, all these bodies.”<\/p>\n
The Reuters news agency reports that Red Cross officials have collected nearly 70 bodies so far.<\/p>\n
Commander Cherif Ousmane said the whole of Yopougon, in Abidjan’s business district, was “now definitively occupied by us”.<\/p>\n
Local people said the Gbagbo fighters had terrorised the neighbourhood.<\/p>\n
“They were armed and they did whatever they wanted,” one man told Reuters.<\/p>\n
Other residents said food and water had been in short supply and infrastructure damaged by the fighting.<\/p>\n
More than 1,000 are believed to have been killed since Mr Gbagbo refused to accept defeat in November’s presidential election.<\/p>\n
He was arrested in April at the presidential residence in Abidjan and is being detained in the north of the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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