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Dozens killed in Chad after protesters demand civilian rule

At the main hospital in the capital N’Djamena, overwhelmed doctors tended to scores of people with gunshot wounds, witnesses said [Hyacinthe Ndolenodji/Reuters]

Chadian security forces have opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in the country’s two largest cities killing dozens of people.

Chadian government spokesman Aziz Mahamat Saleh said 30 people were dead in the capital, N’Djamena. Organisers of the march, however, placed the toll higher, at 40 on Thursday.

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