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At Least 10 Dead as Nigeria’s Biafra Anniversary Turns Bloody

At Least 10 Dead as Nigeria’s Biafra Anniversary Turns Bloody
Tue May 31, 2016 17:50:33

At least 10 people were killed during protests by pro-Biafra campaigners as they marked the May 30 anniversary of the start of Nigeria's civil war, police said on Tuesday.

A police spokesman in the southeastern state of Anambra told AFP “five corpses were recovered” in Onitsha while in the capital of neighboring Delta state, Asaba, the police said five were killed, AFP reported.

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