AT LEAST ONE PERSON WAS KILLED AND DOZENS HURT WHEN RIVAL POLITICAL ACTIVISTS FOUGHT EACH OTHER IN IVORY COAST ON SUNDAY, PARTY OFFICIALS SAID, AS A GROWING DISPUTE OVER A PRE-ELECTION IDENTIFICATION SCHEME TURNED BLOODY. THE SCHEME IS DESIGNED TO GIVE NATIONALITY PAPERS TO CITIZENS WHO DO NOT ALREADY HAVE THEM IN PREPARATION FOR ELECTIONS DUE BY THE END OF OCTOBER IN THE WORLD'S TOP COCOA GROWER, WHICH HAS BEEN DIVIDED IN TWO SINCE A 2002-03 CIVIL WAR. BUT SUPPORTERS OF PRESIDENT LAURENT GBAGBO HAVE PROTESTED AGAINST THE SCHEME, SAYING HEARINGS TO DETERMINE WHO GETS PAPERS ARE NOT BEING CARRIED OUT PROPERLY AND RISK GIVING NATIONALITY AND VOTING RIGHTS TO OPPOSITION-SUPPORTING FOREIGNERS. A LOCAL OFFICIAL OF THE OPPOSITION RALLY OF THE REPUBLICANS (RDR) PARTY TOLD REUTERS HE SAW THE BODY OF A MAN WHO WAS KILLED WHEN THE PARTY'S SUPPORTERS CLASHED WITH PRO-GBAGBO ACTIVISTS IN DIVO, 160 KM (100 MILES) NORTHWEST OF THE COMMERCIAL CAPITAL ABIDJAN. "IT STARTED AROUND 8 A.M. (0800 GMT) I SAW PEOPLE ATTACKING EACH OTHER. I SAW ONE DEAD PERSON AND OTHER PEOPLE INJURED. THEY WERE THROWING STONES AND THEN THERE WERE CLUBS, IRON BARS AND MACHETES, AND BY THE END THERE WERE GUN SHOTS," SAID THE OFFICIAL. "I SAW ONE DEAD, BUT THERE ARE MORE," HE ADDED.
