Six killed in Togo election result protests

AT LEAST six people, three soldiers and three civilians, were killed in protests that broke out after Faure Gnassingbe, the son of Togo’s late dictator, was declared the winner of presidential elections, officials said yesterday.

Clashes pitting riot police against opposition party supporters, angered by Tuesday’s announcement of Faure Gnassingbe’s victory, continued into yesterday, with men throwing petrol bombs at police. More than 100 people were wounded.

Three soldiers have died in the battles engulfing the capital, Lome, Interior Minister Folly Bazi Katari said. He said there was heavy looting and rock-throwing crowds had damaged foreign embassies.