/ 20 June 2001

TWO KILLED AS BROTHEL CLOSED IN NIGERIA

TWO youths were killed when fighting broke out after Islamic vigilantes sought to close a brothel operating in a town in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna State, radio reported. The emir of Birnin Gwari, Zubairu Jibril, told the privately-owned Rima Radio here that the vigilantes entered the brothel on Sunday to close it down. Shortly afterwards, a crowd of unruly youths followed them in and some of them attempted to rape the sex workers in the premises. Fighting broke out and two youths were killed, he said. – AFP

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