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Rebel fighting engulfs Liberia
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MONROVIA, Liberia — Shelling and gunfire raged in the capital yesterday, destroying the international airport and sending U.N. observers and more than 10,000 others fleeing to a U.S. Embassy compound.
The fighting among government troops and warring rebel factions that broke out Saturday in Monrovia is the worst in three years. Tens of thousands have fled the seaside capital.
"We hear rocket-propelled grenade fire, mortar fire, heavyarms fire," Dudley Sims, a representative for the U.S. Embassy, said by telephone. "It's pretty bad."
Paul Koulen, deputy representative of the U.N. development program in Monrovia, said the country's only international airport was ruined. He said three U.S.-donated
helicopters and a passenger airplane of Weasua Airlines, which flies in West Africa, had been destroyed.
Koulen, speaking from his office in the seaside diplomatic district of Mamba Point, said people were fleeing.
"We've seen these people with all their belongings on their heads — beds, sheets, everything — running up and down Mamba Point, depending on where the gunfire is coming from," he said. "It has been a pathetic sight."
Sims said a U.S. military team from Europe was expected in the capital yesterday to determine whether some 470 Americans should be evacuated, but by evening it had not arrived.
U. S. Marines evacuated 2,400 Americans and other foreigners when rebel fighting engulfed the city in 1990.
Sims said 10,000 to 15,000 Liberians were being given refuge at the 27-acre residential compound of Americans working at the U.S. Embassy.
The high-walled residential compound is a short walk from the U.S. Embassy, where the Egyptian ambassador and other diplomats took shelter.
White House press secretary Mike McCurry said the fighting threatened the peace process in Liberia.
The United Nations appealed for an end to fighting but said no decision had been taken whether to evacuate the 233 U.N. personnel.
The United Nations and donor nations have aided the peace process in the country founded by freed American slaves in 1847.
A peace accord signed last August was supposed to have cleared the way for elections this year, but the
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