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Mon 04 Apr 2011Ivorian leader Gbagbo captured
Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo was arrested today after French armoured vehicles closed in on the compound where he has been holed up in a bunker.
A column of more than 30 French armoured vehicles moved in on Mr Gbagbo's residence in central Abidjan after helicopter gunships attacked the compound overnight.
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