Twelve Ivory Coast villagers were killed in an apparent score-settling attack over a pay dispute in the cocoa-growing west of the war-divided nation this week, military and hospital officials said on Tuesday. The victims were shot and hacked to death early on Monday in a farming camp north of the western town of Guiglo, from which U.N. peacekeeping troops were evacuated last month during anti-U.N. riots by supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo. "It was a settling of scores," a local military official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters. He said the attack followed a dispute between a local cocoa planter and his workers over pay.
