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afrol.com, 7 February - Government troops, backed by heavy artillery and helicopter gunships, have seized the Guinean border town of Guékédou after four days of intense fighting against insurgents from Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to news reports. Guinean authorities informed that they had found the former important regional centre as a ghost town. Most of the region has been depopulated during the attacks sponsored by the Sierra Leonean RUF terrorists and Liberia. An estimated 170,000 refugees are still trapped by the on-going fighting in the Guinean border area. RUF fighter Bockarie Musa, who surrendered to UNAMSIL troops in Sierra Leone, said only 20 of the 365 fighters mobilised to fight in Guinea survived the recent battle, the UN Mission reported. Government casualties were not stated by neither parts.
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