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At least 14 people killed in ethnic fighting in central Nigeria

By Garba Muhammed
KADUNA, Nigeria, Feb 21 (Reuters) At least 14 people were killed in central Nigeria, a government spokesman said today, in fighting over grazing land and water, piling pressure on authorities already facing an Islamist insurgency in its northeast and rebels in the oil-rich south.
Semi-nomadic herders shot dead at least 14 villagers and destroyed property in attacks over a 24 hour period in southern Kaduna state, Samuel Aruwan, a spokesman for the governor of Kaduna, said in a statement.
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