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Residents from neighbouring villages representing two different ethnic groups had been involved in sporadic fighting in recent months over fishing rights. The Information Minister, Lambert Mende, said: "They've been fighting over fishing ponds with machetes and with hunting rifles. The policemen were sent to re-establish order. I don't know why they would have been attacked."
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