Soar to seven dead in Dakhla (Western Sahara) clashes between Sahrawi and Moroccan settlers. Seven dead in Dakhla during clashes between Moroccan and

Seven people have died in the riots unleashed in Dakhla, South of the Sahara, from the afternoon of last Sunday, said today the 'States' (civil government) of the area. According to this information, two are police officers.

In a statement to the official MAP Agency, 'wilaya' specifies that two of the victims are police officers, and noted that there have been numerous fires of vehicles and shops, although they say that the situation is 'under control' at this time.

On the other hand, the prosaharaui organization Sahara Thawra denounced a young Sahrawi, Maichan Mohamed Lamin Lahbib, was 'killed' by a group of Moroccan settlers that him beaten.

According to Thawra, Maichan Mohamed Lamin Lahbib, born in 1982, died yesterday at noon because of 'the multiple beatings by Moroccan settlers in the streets of the city'. As a result of his death, continued the Organization through a press release, there have been clashes between the Saharans and the Moroccan police in Laayoune and the own Dakhla, as a result of which a young Sahrawi in the capital of the former Spanish colony have been arrested.

Also, continued, the Moroccan settlers, together with the police, they tried to enter in some neighborhoods of Dakhla, but found with 'resistance of Sahrawi youth'.

The settlers, according to the Organization, have also burned houses of Saharans in the city 'with the consent and supervision of the police'. The Minister of the Interior Morocco, Taieb Cherkaoui, 'already has landed in the city of Dakhla to take command of the situation and control the next steps to follow', added Thawra.

'The situation in the city of Dakhla is quite alarming, explosions are heard from several points of the city, panic and assault sweep the streets, and columns of smoke can be seen from all parts of the city', he added.

The dead on Sunday

The State Agency of news, MAP, reported Monday that at least two people were killed and several had been injured in the past because of a brawl between Sahrawi and Moroccan settlers after a match of the League of amateur football in Dakhla.