(CNN) -in a particularly gruesome chapter of the Ivory Coast four-month conflict, hundreds of people killed in the Western cocoa producing city of Duekoue.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said 800 people to death were shot. A UN official places the death toll so far 330.
Guillaume Ngefa, the Deputy human rights Director of the UN Mission in Ivory Coast, the guilt of 220 of deaths on forces loyal to Alassane Ouattara, the man from the United Nations and other global powers as the legitimate President of C?te d'Ivoire recognized. Ngefa said Pro-Gbagbo forces killed 100 people.
The massacre between Monday and Wednesday occurred as Ouattara of Republican forces an offensive by the country to the commercial center of Abidjan led, said Ngefa.
"We have proof, we have images." This was retaliation, ", he said, referring to Ouattara's forces."
Ouattara camp denied the allegations.
"The Government firmly rejects such accusations and denies any involvement by the Republican forces of C?te d'Ivoire (the French name for Ivory Coast) in possible cases of abuse,", it was said in a statement.
He said "The Government would like to build that is the situation on the contrary,". "Forces loyal to former President Laurent Gbagbo, and his affiliated mercenaries and militias, the countless atrocities in the western Ivory Coast, advancing Republican forces of C?te d'Ivoire acquired during their escape from the".
Ngefa said, so far, 320 bodies have been identified and the actual number could be much higher. He said the dead civilians as mercenaries also included.
Before the Duekoue killings documented human right monitors 462 deaths in the C?te d ' Ivoire conflict. This was the single bloodiest incident yet.
The International Committee of the Red Cross on Thursday sent a team of Duekoue and said most of the victims were civilians, said spokesman Kelnor Panglungtshang in Abidjan.
"they saw the bodies in the streets," he told CNN. "There were so many."
"It is for many resentment so something like this and it can explode," he said. "It is very tense, obviously."
Ngefa, said a contingent of UN peacekeepers stationed in Duekoue and are patrolling the city.
The massacre demonstrates the bloody nature of the Ivory Coast conflict, now in its fifth month. The violence broke after a controversial election November led Gbagbo and Ouattara, both claim the Presidency.
The international community recognised Ouattara as the legitimate winner but refused Gbagbo cede, makes and the Republican forces swallowed violence of the nation, escalation of this week with a major offensive launched by Ouattara.
Fierce fighting broke out for the control of Abidjan, Ivory Coast's largest city. Gbagbo's troops were key areas at the edge of defeat but again Saturday.
Almighty State television station, which was the embattled president's voice in his dispute with Ouattara retook control of the Ivory Coast.
An Abidjan resident, charged not be named for security reasons, said that the network, the dark forces that took over control of the building, went to Pro-Ouattara began broadcasting again Saturday morning.
An American teacher, perforated said above CNN in their apartment in Abidjan, she was terrified and desperately tried to help by French or you evacuate US officials to help get.
She said, she left school last Thursday, and in the afternoon, they the rattle of gunfire and the boom of explosions heard everywhere. It was identified not for security reasons.
"I'm very afraid," she said, "because the bombing intensive is."
A peace-keeping un patrol was Gbagbo's forces attacked Saturday in a suburb of Abidjan, a UN statement said. In the exchange of fire, the five were members of Gbagbo's forces, the statement said shot.
Gbagbo Adviser Abdon Bayeto blame the United Nations and around the world führenden-- including France and the United State-for Ivory Coast bloodshed by Ouattara recognition as the legitimate President.
Bayeto Ouattara told white that he lost the election, CNN, adding that Gbagbo is true democrat.
"For 30 years, that there was no problems in the country", he said. "We are victories."
Gbagbo's whereabouts were unknown. He has not recently appeared in the public and the French Ambassador said, his residence was empty.
Ngefa, which human rights, UN official said tension was running high everywhere and could explode like in Duekoue.
The nation was on the rebound of 2002 civil war and the elections in the last year had was expected to help, start a new chapter, the Ivory Coast closer to a stable democracy.
But the political chaos lit old tensions, including country western region rich in cocoa plantations, the migrants from other parts of the Ivory Coast, as well as foreign workers from regional countries such as Burkina Faso and Mali to win problems in the nation, said Panglungtshang of the Red Cross.
The violence has driven even one million Abidjan's 4 million people and sent thousands fleeing across the border in countries such as Liberia, trying to keep his own fragile peace.
Some 1,400 foreigners, including 500 French citizens, take refuge in a French military camp are looking for, a spokeswoman for the French Defence Ministry said on Saturday.
"The situation on the roads so deteriorated, that it only on out there, go to become dangerous", said Henry gray, a field coordinator with Médecins sans Frontières, a humanitarian medical group known as doctors without borders.
He said that doctors civilian casualties, many of them were treated for gunshot wounds.
"There are a lot of looting and pillaging goes, and if you are out on the streets, you are a target, in fact" gray said.
Abidjan, said gray and others interviewed for this report, was his former even a shadow now.CNN's Karen Smith on this report helped
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