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Ten people suspected of killing a dozen policemen in the south-eastern town of Odi on 4 November were arraigned before a Chief Magistrate's Court in Kaiama, Bayelsa State, `The Guardian', a Lagos newspaper, reported.
AFP, quoting judicial sources, reported that the suspects had been charged with 18 counts of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. They pleaded not guilty to murder but were remanded in a Port Harcourt prison, capital of neighbouring Rivers State, until 7 March.
After the policemen were killed the government ordered federal troops into Odi, Bayelsa's second largest town, to arrest the culprits. However, the soldiers left death and destruction in their wake, burning hundreds of homes.
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