Nigerian soldiers are deployed in Jos after hundreds were killed during violent clashes between Christian and Muslims in 2001. Hundreds of people were killed in Jos when Christians and Muslims clashed over the result of a local election. (AFP/Pius Otomi Ekpei)From Yahoo News/AP:
JOS, Nigeria – Mobs burned homes, churches and mosques Saturday in a second day of riots, as the death toll rose to more than 300 in the worst sectarian violence in Africa's most populous nation in years.
Sheikh Khalid Abubakar, the imam at the city's main mosque, said more than 300 dead bodies were brought there on Saturday alone and 183 could be seen laying near the building waiting to be interred.
Those killed in the Christian community would not likely be taken to the city mosque, raising the possibility that the total death toll could be much higher. The city morgue wasn't immediately accessible Saturday.
Police spokesman Bala Kassim said there were "many dead," but couldn't cite a firm number.
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My Comment: Africa's deadly brew of ethnic, religious, and tribal hatred is now being felt in this part of Nigeria. This can get out of hand very quickly.
This can get out of hand very quickly, as you say.
ReplyDeleteHopefully, it will not.