Some locals say they have been too scared to leave their homes as protests over changes to the voting law grew into deadly riots
Lizzie Carboni knew that life in New Caledonia had changed forever when the school she had attended as a child went up in flames on Wednesday night.
“I could hear people yelling, screaming and grenades being fired,” she says, adding that it was “the worst night of my life” and likening the scenes unfolding in the capital, Nouméa, to “civil war”.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/new-caledonia-riots-protests-noumea-death-toll-state-of-emergency
Author : Helen Livingstone
Publish date : 2024-05-16 05:42:17
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