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Soldiers on Friday fired live rounds in the air outside a mosque in Jos to disperse a crowd planning protests over a US-made anti-Islam film, a spokesman said.
The soldiers “had to fire some warning shots in the air, but there were no casualties,” Captain Salihu Mustapha, military spokesman in Plateau state, told AFP, putting the crowd at several hundred. “The placards they were carrying were denouncing America.”
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