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Troops calm Nigerian oil town

Wednesday 09 June 1999 23:02 BST
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Troops calm Nigerian oil town

THE NIGERIAN oil town of Warri was quiet yesterday after six days of ethnic clashes in which several dozen died. Troops had been called in to quell fighting between the Itsekiri tribe and ethnic Ijaws and Urhobos.

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