BANGUI (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed in the capital of Central African Republic on Sunday during heavy fighting between forces who seized power last month and armed youths loyal to the president they ousted, a doctor and a resident said.
A Reuters correspondent said heavy and small arms fire rang out in Bangui's Boy-Rabe neighbourhood on Sunday morning before easing off just after 1200 GMT. Three of the dead were killed when a shell landed on a church.
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