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Mary Pam (L), mother of murdered Philip Francis, and family ...
Dec 28th, 2011
(Reuters) - Mary Pam (L), mother of murdered Philip Francis, and family members gather to grieve at their home in Jos in Nigeria's Plateau state, December 28, 2011. Armed Fulani herdsmen shot dead three members of a family in an attack in Nigeria's ethnically and religiously mixed Plateau state Wednesday, witnesses and officials said. Plateau is a tinderbox of ethnic and religious rivalries over land and power between local people and migrants from other areas. These often take the form of sectarian strife between the state's Christian and Muslim communities. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde (NIGERIA - Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW) -
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