Survivor says 37 men died from lack of air in crowded Nigerian cell

Survivor says 37 men died from lack of air in crowded Nigerian cell

Dauda Shehu says he survived a packed cell run by Nigeria's civil defence force in northeastern Niger State, where 65 men were locked in a small room with almost no fresh air. He told The Associated Press 37 may have suffocated as men gasped and pounded the door. Officials blame sickness; doctors will examine the bodies.

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