Shooting, pandemonium mark local vote in Nigerian oil city

AFP

21 May 2011

Shooting, pandemonium mark local vote in Nigerian oil city

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria — Heavy police shooting and destruction of property by political rivals marked a local government poll Saturday in Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt, police and residents said.

The shooting took place in densely populated central Rumuomasi district of the city as voters awaited results of local government council elections that took place in most of Rivers State, of which Port Harcourt is capital.