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Many reported dead in clashes between police, OPC

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    Police and militants from an ethnic-based organisation clashed in two Lagos neighbourhoods on Sunday, news organisations reported. AFP reported a police official as saying that the clashes in Mushin and Bariga claimed 20 lives, including two police officers. The police source said on Monday that the clashes occurred when members of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), a Yoruba organisation, attacked two police stations in Mushin and Bariga in an attempt to seize weapons. The OPC, formed in 1994 to protect the interests of the Yoruba, the largest ethnic group in southwest Nigeria, has often been at loggerheads with the police.

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