Abidjan, June 1 (SPA) - Armed men killed at least 28 people on the outskirts of Ivory Coast's western cocoa town of Duekoue, shooting and kniving their victims and torching their homes, security officials and witnesses said on Wednesday. The attacks happened on the outskirts of Duekoue, a cocoa-rich town at the heart of a region where civil war has exacerbated decades-old ethnic tensions. "We have counted 28 dead. We're sending the injured to the hospital but we don't have an exact number of how many there are. It's awful," said a police officer in Duekoue, who spoke on condition of anonymity to Reuters. --SPA 1442 Local Time 1142 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/266726