Nigeria

[Schneemann]

Nigerian police: Thousands detained in raid on Islamic camp

LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN) -- Police in northern Nigeria on Saturday detained almost 4,000 members of an Islamic community, claiming the group posed a potential violent threat, the police commissioner in the Nigerian state of Niger told CNN.

Commissioner Michael Zuokumor said that 3,950 people who belong to an Islamic sectarian group called Darul Islam were "evacuated" from their main camp in a town called Mokwa. The Darul Islam members were being detained inside a local school building, Zuokumor said. The detention continued into Sunday.

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