After nationwide clashes left at least 23 dead in two days, Guinean President Lansana Conte faces a general strike as opposition to his two-decade old rule mounts.
Many international airlines canceled flights to the west African nation because of the mounting troubles which have now left more than 80 dead since the start of the year.
Gunfire was heard and a thick column of smoke rose over the capital, Conakry, late on Sunday as inhabitants went on the rampage.
Witnesses said police shot dead a man in the suburb of Ratoma as they chased looters through the streets and youths threw stones at them from behind barricades.
The local population also killed three suspected looters in the same area -- home to one of Conte's four wives, witnesses said.
In Kankan, 600km east of Conakry, several thousand youths took to the streets shouting slogans hostile to Conte and Eugene Camara, his recent choice to become prime minister. A guard to the local governor was killed, witnesses said.
Thousands of people also demonstrated in the central town of Dabola, where government buildings were ransacked and the mayor's home was set on fire, witnesses said.
On Saturday, at least 18 people were killed across the country, including a soldier lynched by a mob in Kankan after he had shot dead two protesters. His body was then set on fire.
Three people were killed in the Conakry suburbs, a shopkeeper was shot dead by police as he guarded his business, seven people were killed in the western city of Kindia, two in the central town of Faranah and two others in Lola in the south.
Air France canceled Paris-Conakry flights on Saturday and Sunday. Air Senegal International also called off a Dakar-Conakry flight. Both companies cited security fears.
Unions on Sunday threw their weight behind opposition calls for the ailing 72 year old president to step down. They have called a general strike.
"We call simply and purely for him [Conte] to go," said Ibrahim Fofana, one of the leaders of the trade union confederation. "The confederation only portrays the people's wishes."
The latest clashes were sparked by the nomination of Camara as prime minister. The opposition has said he is too close to Conte, who seized power in a coup 23 years ago following the death of founding president Sekou Toure.
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