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Nigeria: Pesticides caused death of nearly 300 villagers

DW News | 09.10.2021 |

02:58 mins.

In 2020, at least 270 people in Nigeria's Benue State died from a mystery ailment. The government has now revealed to DW that they had been poisoned by banned pesticides in a nearby river. DW correspondent Flourish Chukwurah reports.