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The estimated number of deaths ranged as high as 30,000, although the figure was probably closer to 8,000 to 10,000.
The estimated number of deaths ranged as high as 30,000. More than 1 million Igbo returned to the Eastern Region. In retaliation, some northerners were massacred in Port Harcourt and other eastern cities, and a counterexodus of non-Igbo was under way.