Police in northeast Afghanistan prevented two bomb attacks Thursday, as the country started voting in pivotal elections, authorities said.
Afghan police: Election day attacks averted
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Victims of Nigerian clashes buried in mass graves
About 780 people killed in clashes with Islamic militants in the northeast Nigerian area of Maiduguri have been buried in mass graves, an aid official said Monday. The Red Cross urged an environmental agency to bury them as soon as possible because of the dangers of so many bodies being exposed to northern Nigeria’s heat, said Mohammed Zannah Barma, secretary of the Red Cross in Borno state.
700 die in fighting in northern Nigeria
Some 700 people have been killed in clashes with Islamic militants in Nigeria, a military commander told CNN.