Liberian police are investigating the killing of at least 12 farm workers in a land dispute over the weekend in a remote southern part of the country.
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The BBC's Jonathan Paye-Layleh in Liberia says nearly 50 people are feared to have been killed.
He said the farmland on which the attack took place is claimed by a prominent ex-rebel and a senator.
Liberia is recovering from a 14-year civil war which ended in 2003.
Our correspondent says the victims had been working for former rebel spokesman Charles Bennie.
One of those who escaped, Tidoe Monden, said the shooting started on Saturday morning as they were working in a field.
"We just saw suppressive gunfire from all directions," he said.
The attackers then used workers' machetes to "finish some of the wounded", he said.
Senator Roland Kaine has denied any knowledge of the attack.
Ms Sieh said that divers had so far recovered 12 bodies from Farmington River near the farm about 55km (35 miles) south of the capital, Monrovia.
(BBC)
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