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DAKAR, Senegal — Paramilitary police opened fire Monday on men and women protesting the president’s plan to run for a third term, killing a woman in her 60s and a high school student, a witness and a rights group said.
The violence is uncharacteristic for Senegal, on Africa’s western coast, and suggests its political conflict is escalating. Protests spread from the capital to the interior Friday after a court validated President Abdoulaye Wade’s candidacy in next month’s election.
Denver Post wire services
