Youths protest in C.A.R. over church attack

Youths in the Central African Republic set up barricades on roads in the capital on Thursday and lit fires in protest at an attack by Muslim gunmen on a church that left at no fewer than 15 dead, witnesses said.
The violence erupted in the afternoon close to the Our Lady of Fatima church in central Bangui, where thousands of displaced people were sheltering, according to a police officer and a military source.
Gunmen sprayed bullets and hurled grenades, following a battle between anti-balaka Christian militia and residents of the nearby Muslim neighbourhood of PK5.
A 76-year-old priest, Paul-Emile Nzale, was among those killed in the violence near the church.
Peacekeepers from France and the African Union were working to remove the barricades, said Francis Che, head of communications for the African Union peacekeeping force MISCA.
"People need to understand that we will crack down on them and bring them before national or international justice. We will have zero tolerance for the authors of this kind of act," Che told Reuters in reference to the church attack.
The majority Christian country has been wracked by relentless tit-for-tat attacks between Christian vigilante groups and the mainly Muslim ex-Seleka rebels who had seized power in a coup which ended in Januar