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Protests to Cote d’Ivoire over deaths

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    Nigeria has protested to the Ivorian authorities over the deaths of its citizens in recent political upheavals in the West African country, the Pan-African News Agency (PANA) reported on Friday.
    “Four persons are the number of Nigerians that have been identified and confirmed dead,” Foreign Minister Sule Lamido, who announced the protest, was quoted as saying.
    He was giving details of an official investigation into allegations that dozens of Nigerians had been killed.
    “The victims were shot,” he said, and did not die as a result of beatings and manhandling by Ivorian police. “Many Ivorians also died,” he added.
    Hundreds of Nigerians recently evacuated from Cote d’Ivoire have been relating accounts of attacks and maltreatment by Ivorian security forces following the parliamentary elections held in December 2000. Lamido said up to 2.5 million Nigerians still lived in Cote d’Ivoire, PANA reported.

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