Eight die in Nigeria 'jail-break'
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Eight inmates are killed when hundreds of inmates try to break out of a jail in Nigeria, police say.
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The Nigerian army kills at least eight militants in the oil-producing Niger Delta region, sources say.
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Â· Child hostage in Nigeria in 'good health' say police Â· Plan to swap girl for father rejected by officials
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Dozens of people were killed in a  petroleum pipeline explosion in the commercial capital Lagos  early on Thursday morning, Nigerian police said on Friday .
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Security is being beefed up in Nigeria's oil capital, Port Harcourt, after renewed violence left seven dead.
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The suicide bomb attack on an army barracks near Algiers on Wednesday killed eight people and wounded 20, according to security sources.
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At least 18 students are killed in clashes between rival student gangs in south-eastern Nigeria.
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The Nigerian government denies claims that militant leader Henry Okah has been killed while in detention.
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Police identify a British oil worker killed during an attempt to free seven men seized by Nigerian militants.
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A bomb explosion killed eight people near an Algerian military barracks on Wednesday in the politically restive Kabylie region east of Algiers, residents said.
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Armed men kidnapped five foreigners in oil-rich southern Nigeria early Wednesday, the same day the country&#39;s most prominent militant group announced it would end a truce with the government.
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At least 25 prisoners in a Brazilian jail die after fellow inmates set fire to mattresses in a cell, police say.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria -- One of seven foreign oil workers taken hostage yesterday was killed and another was wounded during a rescue attempt that also left two kidnappers and a soldier dead, officials said.
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A kidnapped British oil worker was killed and an Italian injured when Nigerian security forces attempted to rescue a group of seven foreign oil workers held hostage by armed men in the oil-rich Niger Delta, the Italian oil group Eni said in Rome.
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Some 40 people are feared dead in northern Nigeria after a dam collapsed following torrential rain.
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Two al-Qaeda suspects and five prison guards die in a jailbreak attempt in Kabul, Afghan authorities say.
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Dozens of people were killed in a  petroleum pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital  Lagos, police said Friday.