Unrest In The Ivory Coast -- News Updates January 14, 2011

Toll In I.Coast Rises To 247 Dead, 49 Missing -U.N. -- Reuters

* Death toll rises to 247 from 210 in week, U.N. says
* Forty nine missing; no access to three alleged mass graves

GENEVA, Jan 14 (Reuters) - At least 247 people have been killed in violence in Ivory Coast since its disputed presidential election in late November, the United Nations human rights office said on Friday.

The death toll is up from 210 a week ago, U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colville told a media briefing in Geneva.

The latest fatalities include 4 civilians and 7 police killed in clashes in the Abidjan suburb of Abobo, he said.

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