Police, militants continue battle in Nigeria
Posted: July 30, 2009 at 5:36 a.m.
Soldiers in tanks and armored cars besieged the shelled compound of a radical Islamist sect and sporadic gunfire broke out as hundreds of innocents fled Wednesday, the third day of fighting in Nigeria's northern city of Maiduguri.
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