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Hundreds of French security personnel tried to restore order in the Pacific island territory of New Caledonia on Saturday, after a fifth night of riots, looting and unrest.
AFP reporters in the city’s Magenta district saw vehicles and buildings burned, with a phalanx of riot police trying to reassert government control. Helene, aged 42, told AFP that she and neighbours had been manning makeshift barricades in two-to-three-hour shifts, as they waited for thousands of French security forces being flown 17,000 kilometers to impose order.
Three other people – all Indigenous Kanaks – have also been killed: a 17-year-old and two men aged 20 and 36.
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