Liberia: Monrovia gets curfew
29/10/2004 15:04  - (SA)  

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Monrovia - Interim head of state Gyude Bryant has ordered an immediate daylight curfew in Monrovia after violence and sporadic gunfire broke out on Friday in Liberia's war-shattered capital.

United Nations peacekeepers struggled to restore calm in the city, as witness reports on state radio said five churches and one mosque were set ablaze in what appeared to be a rare outbreak of religious violence.

"The curfew starts now," Bryant said in a statement broadcast over the radio. "The United Nations mission has been instructed to use every force to put the situation under control."

It was not clear what started the violence or who was behind it, and officials were unavailable for comment.

Residents calling in witness accounts to a programme broadcast on state and private radio said Muslims had torched five churches and Christians responded by setting one mosque in Monrovia ablaze.

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