The United Nations Security Council has condemned an attack on French troops in the African state of the Ivory coast.
French officials say that additional troops and fighter planes will be sent to the area after government forces there clashed with French peace-keeping troops.
It was also confirmed that French troops destroyed three military helicopters. Demonstrators retaliated by looting French property in the capital, Abidjan.
The violence followed the death of eight French soldiers when Ivory Coast government warplanes bombed French positions in the rebel-held town of Bouake.
The French military said its forces retaliated by destroying two government fighter jets on the ground at an airbase.
Around 10,000 French and UN soldiers police a buffer zone around a ceasefire line that separates the rebels in the North from the government-run south.
