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Seven miners shot dead in Nigeria's restive Plateau, youth group, official say - REUTERS
ABUJA, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Seven people were shot dead in an overnight attack at a mining site in Nigeria's central Plateau state, a local youth group and a state official said on Friday.
Plateau is one of several ethnically and religiously diverse hinterland states known as the Middle Belt, where communal conflict has claimed hundreds of lives in recent years.




