Nicaraguan police and paramilitary groups loyal to President Daniel Ortega have killed at least 10 people, a human rights association says, as the death toll from violent clashes in the Central American country continues to rise.
The killings took place when government forces attacked the community of Monimbo and nearby city of Masaya, about 25 kilometres southeast of the capital, Managua, on Sunday, Alvaro Leiva of the Nicaraguan Association for Human Rights said.
"We are talking about more than 10 deaths at this time," Leiva told a local television station.
The government could not immediately be reached for comment.
Nearly three months of clashes between pro-Ortega forces and demonstrators calling for his removal have claimed over 300 lives, in the bloodiest protests in Nicaragua since the country's civil war ended in 1990.
