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LAGOS (Reuters) – A special police force was deployed in the northern state of Kaduna on Sunday after violence in the past few days left 55 dead, the president said. Muhammadu Buhari on Twitter.
PHOTO FILE: Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, September 28, 2018. REUTERS / Darren Ornitz / Photo of the file
"The police have been allowed to do everything possible to restore calm," he said in the tweet.
The Kaduna state government imposed Sunday a 24-hour curfew after the violence began on the streets of the capital, Kaduna.
Report by Alexis Akwagyiram in Lagos and Garba Muhammad in Kaduna; Edited by Adrian Croft
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