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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Helen Livingstone

Like a ‘civil war’: Nouméa residents describe terror as deadly riots sweep New Caledonia capital

Smoke rises above the Motor Pool district of Noumea on Wednesday.
Smoke rises above the Motor Pool district of Noumea on Wednesday. Residents of the New Caledonia capital have described their fears after a third night of deadly riots that has led to a state of emergency. Photograph: Delphine Mayeur/AFP/Getty Images

Lizzie Carboni knew that life in New Caledonia had changed forever when the school she had attended as a child went up in flames on Wednesday night.

“I could hear people yelling, screaming and grenades being fired,” she says, adding that it was “the worst night of my life” and likening the scenes unfolding in the capital, Nouméa, to “civil war”.

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