Nigeria: Photojournalist Assaulted

February 3, 2002; Nigeria: Some youths assaulted and confiscated the camera of Obi Blessed, a photojournalist with Daily Champion newspapers, for taking shots of scenes of the Hausa/Yoruba clash that erupted in the Mushin and Idi-Araba areas of Lagos on February 2. The youths took out the film and destroyed it before returning the camera to Obi.

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