Four Nigerian peacekeepers killed in ambush in Sudan's Darfur

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KHARTOUM | Wed Oct 3, 2012 2:52pm BST

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Four Nigerian peacekeepers were killed and eight wounded in an ambush in Sudan's western Darfur region, the international peacekeeper force UNAMID said on Wednesday.

"They were killed last night some 2 kilometers from our regional headquarters in El Geneina. They came under fire from all sides," a spokesman for UNAMID said.

(Reporting by Ulf Laessing)

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