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A woman crosses the street in front of a burnt-out United Nations peacekeeper car on Dec. 30 in the Yopougon neighborhood of Abidjan, home to supporters of Laurent Gbagbo. A mob attacked a UN convoy in Abidjan on Tuesday, injuring one peacekeeper with a machete and setting a vehicle alight, the UN said. Gbagbo, who is under heavy pressure to step aside after refusing to cede power in the wake of Nov. 28 elections, has demanded UN troops pull out of the country, saying they are supporting former rebels loyal to his rival Alassane Ouattara.

Ivory Coast crisis: Burnt U.N. peackeeper car in Abidjan

By Elena Grothe

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AP reports:

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Witnesses said dozens of bodies had been dumped near a large forest on the city's outskirts, as reports grew of political opponents being abducted by security forces loyal to incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo after the disputed election.

Now the United Nations believes up to 80 bodies may have been moved to a building nestled among shacks in a pro-Gbagbo neighborhood. Investigators have tried to go there several times, and even made it as far as the building's front door before truckloads of men with guns showed up and forced them to leave.

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