CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — At least one person was killed on Friday, as ethnic riots pitting the Peul and the Malinke, the two largest ethnicities in the country, spread from a market in Conakry, to the suburbs of the Guinean capital, according to witnesses and the Red Cross.

The trouble started on Friday morning in the Madina market where the market is divided along ethnic lines with the Malinke selling spare auto parts in a sprawling section next to the highway, while the Peul own small boutiques, which sell rice and condiments as well as second-hand clothes. Youths from the two groups began pelting each other with stones, and as the riot grew, anti-riot police fired tear gas to try to control the commotion. By afternoon, the riots had spread to other parts of the city. In Peul-dominated areas of the capital, residents were stopping taxis and yanking out Malinke passengers. In Malinke areas, Peul passengers were suddenly not being allowed in. An AP reporter saw the body of a Peul youth being brought to the morgue and Red Cross workers said he had died from a bullet wound.