Several people have been killed in the Ivory Coast during clashes between security forces and demonstrators. Reports say security forces fired live bullets and tear gas into the crowd of hundreds of protesters. The violence in the town of Gagnoa is the latest in a series of demonstrations against President Laurent Gbagbo. Last week he dissolved the government and the electoral commission following a row over voter registration. Speaking to the AFP news agency, hospital staff in the town said demonstrators had brought three bodies to the hospital and that the victims had gunshot wounds. The Associated Press news agency, quoting the opposition, says three people were killed and more than a dozen injured, after police opened fire on demonstrators. A police source confirmed to AFP that there were "some dead" but he could not say how many people had been killed. Correspondents say Ivory Coast is under increasing international pressure to restart an electoral process that is meant to end a crisis sparked by a civil war in 2002 and 2003. A week ago, the president announced that Ivory Coast's government had been dissolved. He also said he was disbanding the election commission, saying its director Robert Beugre Mambe had been "running an illegal operation". Mr Mambe is a member of an opposition party. The opposition says most of the people who were disqualified by the election commission were from ethnic groups in the north of the country, who were unlikely to support Mr Gbagbo in any vote. Elections, last scheduled for 29 November 2009, have been postponed six times. President Gbagbo was elected in October 2000 for a five-year term. On Wednesday the Prime Minister Guillaume Soro, the leader of the ex-rebels, suspended judicial rulings on voter-enrolment because of rising tensions. Source: BBC