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Seventeen reported killed in northeast clashes

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    At least 17 people died in four days of fighting in a land dispute between two communities in northeast Nigeria, Reuters reported on Thursday. Gombe State Police Commissioner Raimi Odofin told reporters that several thousand people were made homeless by the fighting, which began on Sunday between the Tula and Awak communities. Six villages were burnt to the ground while police arrested 50 people. Reuters said that so far this year hundreds of people had been killed in communal clashes in the nation of 108 million, where population growth has been putting increasing pressure on available land.

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