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dArKeR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-10-04 11:15 AM
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Dozens arrested after clash at Nigerian port
Lagos - A clash between troops and unidentified ethnic militants on Tuesday in Nigeria's oil city of Warri left a soldier and four others dead, military officials said.

Other witnesses put the number of civilian dead at ten, including a seven-year-old boy whose mother said had been hit by a stray bullet.

Army spokesperson Elias Zamani said soldiers who went to investigate sporadic shooting before dawn at the city's riverside market were fired upon by "militant youths" who killed one soldier. The troops fired back, killing four.

Zamani said 79 people - many of them local residents who he said were being weeded out from the gunmen - were arrested and detained in the city's army barracks.

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I wonder if they want that dirty crap stuff like a job, food, clothing, a home, and education for their children?
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