The relatives of
Polin Pumandele, 23, carry his corpse on a wheelbarrow from the morgue
to their house. Pumandele, a Christian wood seller, was lynched by a
Muslim mob in Bangui on Sunday morning. His throat was slit. Sectarian
violence between Muslims and Christians has intensified in the Central
African Republic in recent days. More pics after cut...
The relatives of Polin Pumandele mourn him during his funeral ceremony.
A man holds a knife
to his throat claiming that he is looking for Muslims to cut off their
heads in the 5th District of Bangui, the capital of the Central African
Republic.
The body of a Muslim
man who was killed during one of the latest incidents of sectarian
violence lies on the road in Bangui.
The dead body of a
man shot by African Union peacekeepers after he killed a Muslim man lies
on the ground in Bangui.
Two women mourn in Bangui the death of two relatives who were killed in the 5th District.
Women run for cover
after hearing shots in the 5th District of Bangui, where a man was
killed and burned the night before.
A French soldier of
the Sangaris military operation orders a man to give back the items he
looted in the 5th District of Bangui.
French troops watch
thousands of Muslim residents from Bangui and Mbaiki flee the Central
African Republic capital Bangui in a mass exodus using cars, pickups,
trucks, lorries and motorcycles.
Central African
Republic policemen chase looters attacking a broken-down truck as
thousands of Muslim residents from Bangui and Mbaiki flee Bangui in a
mass exodus using cars, pickups, trucks, lorries and motorcycles,
escorted by Chadian troops.
People carry a man
who was injured by a tear gas canister shot by African Union
peacekeeping soldiers to disperse a crowd near the district of Miskine
in the capital Bangui.
A woman is assisted
after tear gas canisters were shot by African Union peacekeeping
soldiers to disperse a crowd near the district of Miskine in the capital
Bangui.
A woman reacts after
she was injured by a tear gas canister shot by African Union soldiers
to disperse a crowd near the district of Miskine in the capital Bangui.
The mutilated body
of a Muslim man who fell of a truck lay on the side of the road, after
thousands of Muslim residents from Bangui and Mbaiki fled the Central
African Republic capital Bangui.
Members of the
Central African Armed Forces lynch a man suspected of being a former
Seleka rebel in Bangui.
A crowd chases a
Gendarmerie officer, who managed to escape in the back of a vehicle
after he was accused of being a supporter of the ousted Seleka fighters
in the capital Bangui.
The Central African
Republic’s interim president, Catherine Samba Panza, is seen on her way
to give a speech in Bangui during a military ceremony.
A woman runs for cover as heavy gunfire erupts in the Miskin district of Bangui, Central African Republic
French troops run for cover as heavy gunfire erupts in the Miskin district of Bangui.
Men duck for cover as heavy gunfire erupts in the Miskin district of Bangui.
Men take cover in a toilet as heavy gunfire erupts in the Miskin district of Bangui.
A militiaman with
the armed Christian movement known as the anti-Balaka stands in a looted
house belonging to a Muslim man who fled the night before in Bangui,
Central African Republic. Fighting between Muslim Seleka militias and
anti-Balaka factions continues as French and African Union forces
struggle to contain the bloodshed.
French forces grab a
man suspected of looting a mosque before chasing him away in the Miskin
district of Bangui.
A French soldier searches a man after confiscating a knife from him in Bangui.
French forces push out looters in the Miskin district in Bangui.
Issaka Hamidou, 16,
sits on a hospital bed in Bangui as he recovers from wound caused by a
stray bullet.
Muslim women and
children stand in the Central African Republic town of Yaloke, north of
the capital Bangui. About 200 rebel fighters, who surrendered to African
Union troops who retook the key town of Sibut during the weekend, fled
overnight, a representative of the military said.
An aerial photograph shows homes destroyed by sectarian violence north of Bangui.
Gen. Francisco
Soriano, center, commander of the French forces in Central African
Republic, greets a community leader in a largely Muslim neighborhood in
the town of Yaloke.
A refugee holds a
mattress while atop a plane in the airport camp in Bangui. More than
130,000 have taken refuge outside the airport, living in dismal
conditions.
French soldiers on patrol in an armored vehicle in Yaloke.
Children pose for a photograph in Yaloke.
Gen. Francisco
Soriano, commander of the French forces in the country, talks to
residents in a largely Muslim neighborhood of Yaloke.
A French army
helicopter flies over Sibut, a town peacekeepers said they retook from
rebels over the weekend.
Residents of Sibut,
who had fled the town and found refuge in nearby forests, gather near a
contingent of French army soldiers after the troops retook control of
the entry to the town.
Muslim militiamen stand in the streets of the Miskin district in Bangui.
A man screams after
being arrested by soldiers from Equatorial Guinea in downtown Bangui.
The man was found with a grenade in his pocket.
Catherine Samba-Panza, interim president of Central African Republic, visits a refugee camp in Bangui.
Source. The Washington Post
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