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A former muslim minister has been hacked to death by unknown men in the Central African Republic.
Joseph Kalite was stepping out of a Taxi when he was attacked.
A family member now in hiding told the Reuters news agency by phone.
“The anti-balaka started attacking him with machetes and sticks and they killed him,” said the relative, who requested anonymity. He added that a brother-in-law who was with Kalite at the time of the attack managed to escape.
This attack was carried out a day after interim President Catherine Samba-Panza took office.
At least nine other people were killed when bands of people, some of them Christian self-defence groups, attacked and looted shops in the mostly Muslim Miskine neighbourhood of Bangui on Friday, witnesses said.
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