CONAKRY (Reuters) - Protesters angered by the death of a young man in police custody ransacked a police station and government buildings in Guinea's main aluminium smelting town on Wednesday, local residents said.
Work at Russian aluminium giant RUSAL's Friguia refinery has been suspended since April 2012 hitting household incomes hard and aggravating social unrest in the town of Fria, 160 km (99 miles) north of the capital Conakry.
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