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Nigerian police 'killing at will'
Nigerian police are carrying out a shocking level of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances, Amnesty International says.
The rights group's three-year inquiry details cases of prisoners tortured to death and shootings at roadblocks.
Amnesty says the police complain they are poorly trained and that criminals are often better armed than they are.
On Tuesday, a hospital in Enugu told the BBC it was overwhelmed by bodies being brought to them by police.
The BBC visited the hospital's morgue in the south-eastern city and took photographs, showing piles young men, lying on top of one another and strewn about on tables and floors.
It was established that at least seven people were last seen alive in police custody, accused of kidnapping.
Police spokesman, Emmanuel Ojukwu, responded by saying extra judicial killings were not approved in Nigeria and officers were being trained to use firearms "in respect of human rights".
'Brutalised'
"The Nigerian police are responsible for hundreds of unlawful killings every year," said Erwin van der Borght, director of Amnesty International's Africa programme, said in a statement.
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