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MANDAN, N.D. (AP) — Some students who attend school in Mandan will be getting a police escort to classes due to a protest over an oil pipeline.
The Bismarck Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/2bFD7Qp ) that the 28 students live south of a barricade put up on state Highway 1806 on Aug. 17 because of safety concerns related to the protest in southern North Dakota of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Opponents fear the $3.8 billion pipeline that's to carry North Dakota oil to Illinois could leak and contaminate drinking water on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
The Morton County Sheriff's Office will send a patrol car to escort the students' bus to and from school on Thursday, the first day of classes. Sheriff's Office spokesman Rob Keller says the escorts will continue as long as necessary.
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