Nigeria police fire tear gas at protesters over deaths of 37 miners in custody

🇳🇬 The Hindu (NG) —
Nigeria police fire tear gas at protesters over deaths of 37 miners in custody

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In Nigeria, police used tear gas against protesters demanding justice for 37 miners who died in custody. While authorities claim the deaths resulted from a disease outbreak, survivors allege suffocation as the cause, sparking civil unrest.

The civil defence corps said they died as a result of a suspected disease outbreak, but survivors told The Associated Press that the miners died of suffocation

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