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SOKOTO, Nigeria (AP) - At least one person died Friday and about 100 were detained in a series of dawn raids in northern Nigeria following sectarian clashes sparked by the killing of a popular Sunni cleric, a police commissioner said.
Police questioned two suspects in the killing and they said some of the 100 detainees were connected to information given by the two suspects.
The raids were meant to end the sectarian violence that followed Wednesday's killing of a cleric known for his anti-Shiite rhetoric, said Sokoto state Police Chief Shehu Usman. A Shiite man accused of being one of the gunmen who shot the cleric was beaten to death by a mob of Sunni worshippers.
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