Dozens of people were killed on Sunday in clashes between fans at a football match in N’Zerekore, Guinea’s second-largest city, hospital sources said, describing scenes of mass carnage.

“There are bodies lined up as far as the eye can see in the hospital. Others are lying on the floor in the hallways. The morgue is full,” one doctor said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.

Another doctor said there were “dozens of dead”.

“Hospital services have put the provisional death toll at 56,” a statement from the junta-controlled government said on Monday.

Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah urged calm in a Facebook post on Monday, condemning the violence and promising an update “as soon as it has gathered all the pertinent information”.