BANGUI: At least 30 people, mostly civilians, were killed in fighting between mainly Christian militia and predominantly Muslim rebels in the strife-torn Central African Republic, police said Wednesday.

The victims, “the majority of them civilians” caught in the crossfire, died during clashes Tuesday that also left more than 10 people wounded in the central town of Dekoa, police said. The fighting pitted so-called “anti-balaka” militia against members of the mainly Muslim Seleka rebel group that seized power for 10 months in March 2013, unleashing a wave of brutal tit-for-tat killings.