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3 N. Korean doctors slain in Nigeria

Health-board chief promises security for other workers in exchange program

By MOHAMMED ABUBAKAR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted: February 11, 2013 at 4:45 a.m.

Assailants in northeastern Nigeria killed three North Korean doctors, beheading one of the physicians, in the latest attack on health workers in a nation under assault by an Islamic sect, officials said Sunday.

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