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FREETOWN: Armed clashes erupted in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Sunday in what the government said was an attack on a military armoury, as it imposed an immediate national curfew...
Witnesses told AFP they heard gunshots and explosions in the city's Wilberforce district, where the armoury is located along with a number of embassies...
Other witnesses said they heard exchanges of fire near a barracks in Murray Town district, home to the navy, as well as outside another military site in Freetown...
"I was awakened by a loud sound of heavy machine gun (fire) and bombs coming from the Wilberforce barracks around 4:30 am," witness Susan Kargbo told AFP by telephone..
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