Land-grabbers who rented government plots illegally to fly-by-night shops, taking money that belonged to the city. (Mr Hamidi would burst into such places with shovel in hand, pushing people aside, shouting at them to clear their rubbish away.) And, over all these, the swaggering local powerbrokers who demanded their share of the opium trade, the military contracts and the building projects, like boys fighting for candy at a wedding.

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Club manager Michelle Anderson, 39, earlier said the boys were not cage-fighting but "grappling".

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The fighting has trapped 80 boys inside an orphanage in the city, according to Muhammad Ali, the director of the facility.

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