At least 16 people have been burned alive or hacked to death with machetes, and dozens wounded, during two days of ethnic clashes in the south, officials said Tuesday. The violence broke out early Monday when gas station guards from the Guerze tribe in the town of Koule beat to death an ethnic Konianke youth they had accused of stealing. Fighting quickly spread to the nearby provincial capital, N’Zerekore. A government spokesman said 16 people had been killed and about 80 wounded. Security forces have been sent to try to restore order.