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Police say at least 100 died in Nasarawa crisis

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    Not fewer than 100 people, including six policemen, died in ethnic unrest over the past five weeks in the central Nigerian state of Nasarawa, media organisations quoted police spokesman Peter Audu as saying in the state capital, Lafia. ‘This Day’ newspaper said on Wednesday that this was the first official death toll for the conflict, sparked by the killing on 12 July of five people, including an Azara chief. Their deaths were blamed on people from the Tiv ethnic group.

    [For more information see ‘NIGERIA: IRIN Focus on ethnic conflicts in the central region’]

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