In Nigeria, thirty-seven miners perished inside a single police holding cell where sixty-six people had been confined with almost no air, food, or water — a death toll that exceeds half of those detained. Their deaths, witnessed by survivors who described bodies collapsing in darkness and heat, lay bare a question as old as the institution of the state itself: what obligation does power owe to those it holds captive. The outcry that followed is not merely grief; it is a reckoning with the distance between the law's promise and its practice.
37 Dead After Nigerian Police Cram 66 Miners Into Single Cell
Thirty-seven miners died in police custody from suffocation and deprivation in an overcrowded cell; survivors reported widespread collapse and death.
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