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Gunmen destroy hundreds of ballot boxes in southeast Nigeria

Nearly 800 ballot boxes and voting booths were destroyed in Nigeria's Anambra State, with just three weeks to go to the elections.

In the latest in the series of attacks on the electoral commission's offices, gunmen in Nigeria's south-eastern Anambra State, destroy nearly 800 ballot boxes and voting booths, three weeks before the country goes to the polls. A senior officer at the Independent Nigerian Electoral Commission (Inec) says they are working with security forces to stop the attacks.

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