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Red Cross donates to Sharia riot victims

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    The Nigerian Red Cross has donated food and and other relief material to some 10,000 victims of the recent religious riots in Kaduna, Owerri, Aba and Enugu, `The Guardian' newspaper reported on Monday. It said the victims, still camped in hospitals, army and police barracks, are being given 800 bags of rice, 108 bags of beans, 2,640 cans of vegetable oil, 5,000 mats and 1,500 covered plastic buckets.

    Other aid to victims elsewhere has come from the Justice, Development and Peace Commission, a local human rights organisation in Ijebu-Ode, in the western state of Ogun. An official of the NGO said it had donated food, medicines and clothing through its Roman Catholic Diocese.

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