The exact number of deaths was unclear. The United Nations said that 330 people were killed while aid agencies up to 1000 put the death toll. It was also uncertain, how many civilians were, and how many Vertragsschlie?ende were States, but Caritas, a Catholic charity whose Mitarbeiter visited the city, Duékoué, in the western C?te d'Ivoire, called it a "massacre".
The "City was full of bodies," said Patrick Nicholson, a spokesman for the charity. "they saw bodies in the city, in the Bush, mass graves."
Humanitarian workers not say who is responsible. But the United Nations said that more than 100 of Mr Gbagbo had been slain fighters, during approximately 200 by forces loyal to his rival, Alassane Ouattara, who acknowledged had been slain man by the United Nations, the African Union and other international organisations as the winner of the presidential election last year.
Mr Ouattara Government statement a responsibility for atrocities committed in any part of the country, to deny that its troops had discovered mass graves in other cities, were the result of the massacre of Mr Gbagbo forces.
However, the murders in question how much control over his powers has Mr Ouattara could call. If further investigation proved its participation in civilian deaths, it could Mr Ouattara reputation overseas, cloud, where it is felt, claim to the high moral in the debate with Mr Gbagbo.
During the crisis, civil largely in the hands of Mr Gbagbo forces, killings have come the most cause threats of prosecution by international prosecutors. Human rights groups have accused loyal forces also to Mr Ouattara from some extrajudicial killings, but neither side has to close in a single event this size have been involved. The United Nations had previously estimated that a total of about 500 people in the crisis, more than four months of tensions and sporadic violence had been killed.
Many of Mr Ouattara are former rebels in an uprising of the 2002 divided the country into two halves, fighters and they have come recently under his banner. The rebels have a history of violations of human rights and in particular on the edge of the political crisis had stopped.
Duékoué is one of the strategic cities of the country's cocoa-growing region, which they seized last week. A team of the International Committee of the Red there cross "saw a large number of bodies", said a spokeswoman, Dorothea Krimitsas.
"the scale of which were shocked," she said. "We have no exact information about who is behind this." "There were at least 800."
The conflict between Mr Ouattara and Mr Gbagbo has unleashed long-standing ethnic rivalries, particularly in the lawless Western regions. The Red Cross said the large number of dead, which it saw in the city on Thursday and Friday were apparently victims of "intercommunal violence". But it has not authorized responsibility for the killings.
With Mr Gbagbo refuses, step down - despite international condemnation, sanctions and a collapsing economy - the rebels across the country in a rapid sweep last week to back to the Presidential Palace and Mr Gbagbo residence in the nation city ahead geschobenAbidjan.
UN peacekeeping forces in Duékoué are stationed, but it was unclear which know, if available, would have their basis on the mass deaths may have.
"they are protection of the Catholic mission" where thousands of civilians, refuge have said a spokesman for the United Nations, Hamadoun Touré. "nothing tell them not me." If they knew that she would have told us, "he said." "In General when it fights, there are incidents." "Sometimes there are exaggerations."
In Abidjan, the commercial capital, gunfire and artillery rocked exchange the city on Saturday, as Mr Gbagbo stiff efforts to distribute resisted.
Mr Gbagbo loyalists captured the State TV channel, although its renewed the importance Mr Ouattara of military spokesman dismissed.
"What is us after the liberation of the people in Abidjan," said Capt. Leon Alla, the spokesman. "Not the r.t.i, the nothing more than propaganda," he said television Ivorienne referring to radio.
Still, the station was one of the most powerful weapons, Mr Gbagbo, in a non-stop campaign to start supporters with claims that he is the victim of a Western conspiracy, and both sides have led a fierce battle for this.
The streets in Abidjan were empty, widespread looting was reported, and residents remained are home, often on the ground stray balls, to avoid a Swedish staff of the United Nations killed on Thursday. "they still occur without interruption," said Ben Sylla, lives near the large Agban military base in the district d ' Adjamé. "Heavy weapons fire," Mr Sylla said, adding that dozens of families had taken refuge in a nearby school.
The speaker who said the United Nations, Mr Touré,: "there is cause." Then it calms down. "The situation remains unchanged." The United Nations reported that an of his patrols Friday from Mr Gbagbo forces, and fired back, was attacked several of the strongman beat soldiers.
Mr Gbagbo was probably in the Presidential Palace city, the site from its offices, or at his residence in the neighbourhood of Cocody. Residents reported hearing shots and artillery to both provide. His advisor was achieved not Saturday.
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