UN: More than 100 dead bodies found in Ivory Coast

The UN has said that more than 100 bodies had been found in Ivory Coast in the past 24 hours, some of them burned alive.

The UN has said that more than 100 bodies had been found in Ivory Coast in the past 24 hours, some of them burned alive.

About 60 were killed in one incident and about 40 in another that appeared to have been carried out by Liberian mercenaries, says Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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