Abidjan, Ivory Coast (CNN) -- Ten Ivory Coast soldiers have been killed in attacks Sunday and Monday by unidentified gunmen in Abidjan, the economic capital, the defense minister said. The attacks come just before the country celebrates its independence on Tuesday. The first of the attacks occurred before dawn on Sunday and took place in Abidjan's neighborhood of Yopougon, a stronghold of the former president, Laurent Gbago. The gunmen attacked the Abidjan's 17th district police station after about 50 people were arrested in the neighborhood in a preventive raid carried out by the Ivorian army earlier in the night, defense minister Paul Koffi Koffi said by phone from Abidjan Sunday.
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Five Ivory Coast soldiers are killed by unidentified gunmen Monday, the defense minister says
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A separate attack Sunday killed another five soldiers
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An attack also occurred Sunday in Abengourou but no one was killed, state media reports
But Monday before dawn, 30 gunmen attacked an @placeholder military camp, killing five more.