00:01Armed security personnel have been deployed in the Nigerian city of Minna
00:05where demonstrators have been taken to the streets a day after dozens of suspected illegal gold miners
00:11died while in the custody of a paramilitary civil defence group.
00:15Survivors have recounted their panic as they struggled to breathe in their cell.
00:20The incidents prompted rioting in Minna where the deaths occurred
00:23and police opened fire in a bid to disperse the crowds.
00:28The scramble for gold reserves dug up in illegal mines in the area
00:31is contributing to violence by criminal gangs, according to local officials and experts.
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