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Police find murdered colleagues

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    The bodies of seven policemen killed in November by armed youths in Nigeria's oil region town of Odi have been recovered from a mass grave, Reuters reported police as saying on Monday.

    Police spokesman Nyanaba Agbozi told reporters in the Bayelsa State capital, Yenagoa, that the killers planted cassava on the mass grave "to create the impression it was a cassava farm''.

    The deaths of the policemen provoked the federal government into sending troops to track down the killers.

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