Eight Police Officers Killed In Anti-Government Riots
Eight police officers and two-dozen civilians were killed during violent anti-government protests in Sierra Leone on Wednesday, the country’s youth minister said. The officers, six men and two women, were “brutalized” and killed in the area where the protests held on Wednesday, youth minister Mohamed Orman Bangura said. Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the capital Freetown on Wednesday, protesting inflation and the rising cost of living in the West African country. The protests grew …