Opposition supporters throw rocks during clashes with police in Conakry, on May 24, 2013.<\/p>\n
Twelve people have been killed in clashes between opposition supporters and security forces in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, a government spokesman has said.\n<\/p>\n
Government spokesman Albert Camara said on Monday that 26 people were also hospitalized with injuries from the violence that began last week, The Associated Press reported.\n<\/p>\n
Hospital workers put the death toll higher, at 18, because some families took their dead from the morgue for immediate burial.\n<\/p>\n
The clashes are the latest in a series of disputes between the opposition leader Cellou Dallein Diallo and the ruling party over the details of parliamentary elections scheduled for June 30.\n<\/p>\n
The elections have been repeatedly delayed since 2011, and the last legislative elections were held in 2002 in the African nation.\n<\/p>\n
The opposition leader has accused the government of President Alpha Conde of planning to rig the vote.\n<\/p>\n
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