Several killed in Djibouti as communal violence erupts

Police say at least three killed in the country’s capital following violence between Afar and Isse ethnic groups.

At least three people died after a rare outbreak of intercommunal violence in Djibouti during which the police intervened, the public prosecutor said. Fighting broke out on Sunday in several parts of the capital Djibouti, between the ethnic Afar group, which straddles Djibouti’s borders with Ethiopia and Eritrea, and the Issa, Djibouti’s other main ethnic group. “There were several extremely serious criminal acts. Houses were intentionally set on fire,” Lamisse Mohamed Said told public television on Monday, without giving any possible reason for the violence.