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Riley Moore: “Potentially as many as 300 have been killed throughout that…”

Featuring: Riley Moore, Republican | U.S. House West Virginia, District 2

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Rep. Riley Moore Joins 'The Faulkner Focus' to Discuss the Recent Attack on Christians in Nigeria

Published | Video Starts at 02:58

Well, right now, the folks that I am talking to on the ground have described what's happening in the middle belt in the north of Nigeria right now in the last 10 days as a bloodbath. Potentially as many as 300 have been killed throughout that region of Nigeria. We've had this priest who has been kidnapped as well with 10 of his parishioners. Three of them were killed. (02:58–03:06)

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Asserts that up to 300 people have been killed in a specific region of Nigeria recently.

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