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1. A person is killed and three more people are injured during a rocket attack by Polisario Front in Smara, in the Morocco-occupied Western Sahara.
   2023-10-30 14:22:36 (First version)
2. A person is killed and three more people are injured during a rocket attack by the Polisario Front in Smara, in the Morocco-occupied Western Sahara.
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