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Lagos police repulse armed attack

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    An armed gang that tried to overrun the Lagos Police Command Headquarters at the weekend were driven back under a hail of bullets, ‘The Guardian’, a Lagos daily, reported on Tuesday.

    The daily said police suspected the attackers belonged to a militant group in Lagos State. It reported neither casualties nor arrests.

    The nocturnal attack followed fighting two weeks ago between members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), a Yoruba pressure group, and Ijaw youths in Ajegunle, a Lagos slum.

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