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Global deaths from terrorism drop

The number of terror related deaths around the world fell for a second year in 2016, according to the Global Terrorism Index. The biggest drop was recorded in Nigeria where there's been an 80% reduction. Daniel Hyslop heads research at the Institute for Economics and Peace, which compiled this year's report.

(Photo: A poster advertising for the search of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau on a wall in Baga village, in north-eastern state of Borno in 2013. Credit: Tim Cocks/Reuters)

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