Most of the bodies were mutilated or had their throats cut, sources said.
Earlier Monday, an international committee monitoring the implentation of a French-mediated peace in Ivory Coast confirmed several deaths in a statement.
The statement said that the commander of French peacekeeping forces in Ivory Coast, General Emmanuel Beth, had confirmed "that serious clashes in Bangolo (on March 7 and 8) had claimed numerous civilian lives."
French forces enforcing a shaky ceasefire in Ivory Coast had disarmed and apprehended several people after the fighting, said the statement by the committee, which is led by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's special envoy to Ivory Coast, Albert Tevoedjre - Sapa-AFP
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