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Hospital run by OPC leader attacked

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    Armed youths, thought to number 100, killed one man and ransacked the 30-room Best Hope Hospital run by a leader of the Oodua People's Congress (OPC), an ethnic-based group currently engaged in factional fighting, witnesses told AFP on Wednesday. The clinic, run by Dr. Frederick Fasheun, was attacked on Tuesday. He is the leader of the more moderate faction of the OPC, a Yoruba nationalist group, hospital workers and witnesses said. Fasheun declined to say who was responsible for the attack However, AFP cited witnesses as saying they suspected the rival, hardline OPC faction, led by Ganiyu Adams.

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