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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Eight people die in a four-hour gun battle between police and thieves in a suburb of Guatemala City.
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At least 18 students have been killed in clashes between rival student gangs in south-eastern Nigeria.
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Five Afghan prison guards and police and  two prisoners were killed in a jail break attempt by al Qaeda  inmates on Friday and a shoot-out was going on with another  two, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said.
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One hostage was killed and another injured when Nigerian security forces attempted to rescue a group of seven foreign oil workers kidnapped by armed men in southern Nigeria, the Italian oil group Eni said in Rome.
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A car bombing killed at least eight people at military barracks southeast of the Algerian capital on Wednesday, according to local media.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria  - One hostage was killed and two wounded on Wednesday when Nigerian troops launched a rescue attempt to free seven foreign oil workers abducted from an offshore oilfield, military and industry sources said.
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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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KANO, Nigeria  - Five policemen working for Nigeria's anti-drug enforcement agency were among seven people killed by a mob that mistook them for armed robbers in a remote northern village, a senior official said Friday.
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YENAGOA, Nigeria  - Nigerian gunmen attacked an Agip oil export terminal in the Niger Delta at dawn on Thursday, kidnapping four foreign workers and killing a local youth, authorities said.
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Gunmen in Pakistan kill eight pro-government tribal leaders in the troubled South Waziristan region, officials say.
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A jail fire killed eight inmates who could not be rescued because the guard had left with the keys, Brazilian police said Wednesday.
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The killing by Nigerian security forces of a British oil worker during an attempt to free seven foreigners held hostage in the Niger Delta, has drawn widespread condemnation and focused attention on the deteriorating security situation in the nation's oil hub.
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Some 40 people are feared dead in northern Nigeria after a dam collapsed following torrential rain.
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Dozens of people were killed in a  petroleum pipeline explosion in Nigeria's commercial capital  Lagos, police said Friday.
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At least eight people died Tuesday in clashes between police and thousands of tribal people demanding government aid, a senior official said.
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A suicide blast killed at least eight people near the Somali government seat of Baidoa on Thursday in an attack the administration blamed on Islamists backed by al Qaeda.