Hundreds Killed In Nigeria Riots

SKY NEWS
Sunday, November 30, 2008

Hundreds of people have been killed in two days of clashes between Muslim and Christian gangs in Nigeria.
Residents in the central city of Jos have taken nearly 400 bodies to the main mosque, and clerics say more corpses are continuing to arrive.

Police have imposed a round-the-clock curfew after homes, mosques and churches were torched as political and religious opponents clashed following a local election.

The sectarian violence is the worst in Africa’s most populous nation in over four years.

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Sheikh Khaled Abubakar, the imam from the mosque, said “close on 400 bodies” had been laid out there.

Earlier in the day, a local journalist said he counted 381 bodies.

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Those killed in the Christian community would not be taken there, indicating the death toll could be much higher.

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