gunfire was reported around the Presidential Palace, heavy fighting occurred has to in Ivory Coast for a third day as rival forces battle city, Abidjan, which makes.Internationally recognized President Alassane Ouattara fighters fought for control of key areas by troops of loyal to incumbent Laurent Gbagbo kept.
Mr Gbagbo forces land a call to arms after apparently underexposed State TV.
Now, says the United Nations, quoted by AFP, that many hundreds of deaths in the Western City of Duekoue were forces this week in the hands of Mr Ouattara.
But Sidiki Konaté, Advisor to the Prime Minister Mr Ouattara, said while some people were in the fighting between the two sides, it would have no intentional killing of Gbagbo supporters.
The UN said more than 330 people died in inter-community violence in the city, but aid agencies to between 800 and more than 1,000 deaths.
The battle of Abidjan remains wild, with heavy fighting reported Agban and the Presidential Palace on Saturday at the military base.
But the situation within the city is unclear, with some reports, the soldiers who fought with each other to defend base.
State television station RTI appears again under the control of Gbagbo supporters after is just by their rivals seized.
A soldier, accompanied by a dozen members Mr Gbagbo defence and security forces (FDS), read a statement on the channel for the mobilization of troops call for the protection of the State institutions.
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After Mr Gbagbo had gone, Mr said ban, he expected Mr Ouattara begin the process of reconciliation and restore the rule of law.
Residents of Abidjan say they are afraid to leave their homes as the fight continues. Many reports from the food, with all shops closed and widely spread plunder runs.
An eye-witness called as Khodor, from the Lebanon, said he could hear shots to the BBC and there were looters on the streets.
"We have no food or water," he said. "I am very quiet now, but there are people in tears, we have no idea what will happen, or even what is going on."
The BBC's Valérie bony in Abidjan says: "In all districts of Abidjan it is sporadic shots." "There is a d ' Estaing, where shops and homes of young people are plundered, who will take advantage of the situation are lot of looting in the city, for example on the Boulevard Valery Giscard."
Tens of thousands of women, men and children have fled fighting in Duekoue since MondayShe says young Gbagbo supporters in several districts of Abidjan by Gbagbo loyalists also, was armed according to have evidence.
Mr Ouattara was internationally recognized to as President after a run-off vote in November, but Mr Gbagbo win also victory and at Office refused to leave.
Duekoue 'Massacre'
A spokesman for the United Nations Mission in C?te d 'Ivoire, Guillaume N' Gefa, told AFP that 330 people like Mr Ouattara forces the city, which took over most of them in the hands of the rebels were killed in Duekoue.
However, more than 100 of them from Mr Gbagbo killed troops.
Mr N'Gefa said a UN team was still studied, and these numbers were rising.
Mr. ban said that those who had committed crimes and violated international humanitarian law would be put on trialAlready, the International Committee of the Red Cross said at least 800 died, while Roman Catholic charity Caritas the figure are more than 1,000.
ICRC staff who visited the Western City of Duekoue said the scale and the brutality of the killings were shocking.
The city was of fighter support Mr Ouattara of this week captured and has seen heavy fighting.
Aid agencies have repeatedly warned that civilians were exposed to too much violence.
The ICRC said delegates and volunteers from the C?te d'Ivoire red cross the city to collect had visited on Thursday and Friday to evidence of the killings.
Tens of thousands of women, men and children fighting in Duekoue had fled since Monday, they said.
The Human Rights Office of the United Nations says that it has received reports of large perpetrated human rights violations by both sides in the conflict.
West Africa's second largest economy has forced by the conflict that global cocoa prices has sent upward spiral brought to its knees. Ivory Coast is the world's largest cocoa.
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