Taylor claims victory in latest battle for capital, city buries

Saturday, June 28, 2003

MONROVIA, Liberia -- President Charles Taylor's jubilant forces claimed to have driven rebels out of Liberia's ruined capital Friday after a four-day artillery battle that killed hundreds, and left trapped families burying their dead on the city's Atlantic Ocean beaches.

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