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Nigeria police kill rebel chief
31.07.09
The leader of the Islamist sect blamed for days of violence in Nigeria has been shot dead in custody.
The police chief of the northern Borno state announced on radio that Mohammed Yusuf, head of Boko Haram - known as the Nigerian Taliban - was dead.
The governor's spokesman Usman Ciroma said: "I saw his body at police headquarters. I believe he was shot while he was trying to escape." At least 4,000 have been displaced in recent fighting between Boko Haram and Nigerian troops.
