At least three people were burned alive in the working class neighborhood of Yopougon, a witness said, and three mosques were also torched. At least one church was burned in a different section of town, as residents fled the worst affected areas. I'm scared, so scared. Much of the violence had died down in Abidjan by early afternoon, following a large-scale deployment of security forces firing tear gas into crowds and gunshots into the air. Tonight, senior officials with Gbagbo's Ivorian Popular Front and Ouattara's Rally of the Republicans appeared together on state-controlled television to appeal for peace.
Ivory Coast is in the process of coming out of anguish.
Gbagbo's party officials said there was no way to know how many of their supporters had died. About 50 people had been reported killed in clashes Tuesday and Wednesday. Those figures could not be independently confirmed. Battle Within the Opposition Ouattara's supporters are demanding new presidential elections be held in this West African nation after their leader was excluded from Sunday's vote. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan backed their demand today, saying conditions were now right to put in place a democratic process to let the country's people freely elect a leader.