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Shiites: Nigeria Hides Massacre Victims

To keep death toll from investigators.

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The Islamic Movement in Nigeria has alleged that the government's military buried the bodies of hundreds of Shiite Muslim victims to hide the death toll of a recent massacre. The allegations come after the United States called for an investigation into the army's raid on Nigerian Shiite locations, reportedly killing hundreds. A Shiite spokesman says soldiers removed their victims' bodies from a local hospital and buried them in mass graves.

Read it at The New York Times

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