Fear grips southeast Nigeria after wave of attacks : vimarsa

Fear grips southeast Nigeria after wave of attacks
AFP
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AFP
© Erin CONROY
Map of Nigeria locating five south-eastern states where police officers have been attacked recently.
The shell of Owerri city prison has become the charred symbol of attacks that are unfurling across Nigeria's southeast, stirring fears of renewed separatist violence and uneasy memories of a civil war half a century ago.
© Pius Utomi EKPEI
Nigeria's southeast is a hotbed of separatist sentiment
At least 127 police and security personnel have been killed this year in the powderkeg region and more than two dozen police stations razed, according to local media.

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