DAKAR, Senegal  Streets were deserted and shops were shut tight Tuesday in Conakry, Guinea, a day after government troops went on a brutal rampage at an opposition rally, shooting, stabbing, raping and assaulting dozens of men and women in a packed stadium.

Hospitals in the city were full of the wounded from what opponents of the military government here termed a massacre, and human rights groups continued to revise upward the number of dead, saying Tuesday that about 157 people are known to have been killed.

Over a thousand victims had suffered gunshot wounds or other injuries, the groups said.

Fresh assaults were said to have taken place in some neighborhoods on Tuesday, with soldiers shooting in the air and pursuing and firing on opponents of the government, according to several opposition figures. They said several new deaths had been recorded Tuesday.

Image Guinean soldiers arrested a man who attended an opposition rally in a stadium in the capital, Conakry, on Monday. Credit... Seyllou/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Houses of opposition leaders were ransacked and shops were looted by uniformed men, they said.

But they said a precise death toll was impossible to ascertain because the army had removed bodies from the stadium where as many as 50,000 had gathered to protest the ruling military junta. All described an atmosphere of tension in Conakry, the West African nation’s seaside capital.