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    <text>At least 12 people are killed and three others are abducted after Fulani gunmen attack a mining site in Plateau State, Nigeria. </text>
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      <text>One person is shot and 315 people, including 12 teachers and 303 schoolchildren, are abducted in an attack on a Catholic school in Agwara, Niger State, Nigeria. </text>
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      <text>One person is shot and 227 people, including 12 teachers and 215 schoolchildren, are abducted in an attack on a Catholic school in Agwara, Niger State, Nigeria. </text>
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      <text>One person is shot and staff members and 52 schoolchildren are abducted in an attack on a Catholic school in Agwara, Niger State, Nigeria. </text>
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    <text>One person is shot, and 315 people, including 12 teachers and 303 schoolchildren, are abducted in an attack on a Catholic school in Agwara, Niger State, Nigeria. </text>
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    <text>Eight security officials are killed, four others are seriously injured, and five Chinese workers are kidnapped, with four rescued afterwards, in an attack on a Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps convoy in Edo State, Nigeria. </text>
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      <text>Twenty medical students, twelve from the University of Jos and eight from the University of Maiduguri, are kidnapped while traveling in Benue State, Nigeria. </text>
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    <text>Twenty medical students from the University of Jos and the University of Maiduguri are kidnapped while traveling in Benue State, Nigeria. </text>
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    <text>At least 113 people are killed and over 300 others are injured following coordinated attacks by local &quot;bandits&quot; on more than 20 communities in Bokkos and Barkin Ladi, Plateau State, with hostilities continuing into early Monday. </text>
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    <text>Fifty people are killed and 70 others kidnapped in a series of attacks in Plateau State, Nigeria. </text>
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      <text>Gunmen kidnap 18 villagers in Kaduna State, Nigeria, including seven children, according to a community leader. It is the latest mass kidnapping incident of many in recent times in Nigeria. </text>
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    <text>Gunmen kidnap 18 villagers in Kaduna State, Nigeria, including seven children, according to a community leader. </text>
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      <text>At least 50 people are killed and 83 others wounded in a suicide bombing on a Mawlid gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan. </text>
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    <text>At least 50 people are killed and 83 others injured in a suicide bombing on a Mawlid gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan. </text>
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    <text>Thirty-three are killed in an attack in Nigeria's Plateau State. </text>
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    <text>The President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan declares a state of emergency in the states of Borno, Yobe, Niger and Plateau due to violence by the Islamist sect Boko Haram. </text>
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  <text>Gunmen abduct 28 people after intercepting a vehicle traveling to a Maulud gathering in Bashar, Plateau State. </text>
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