Post by Michael on Jan 26, 2010 9:40:59 GMT -5
326 killed in Nigeria's inter-religious clashes
AFP, 26 January 2010
KANO (Nigeria): Nigerian police said on Tuesday at least 326 people died in Muslim-Christian clashes last week in the central Plateau State.
"From the figures available to the police ... 326 people were killed in the recent violence," police spokesman Mohammed Lerama told AFP.
However, other estimates from medical and aid workers and religious and community leaders put the toll at more than 550.
The killings erupted in Jos on January 17 and spread to nearby towns and villages in the following days.
Christian resistance to the building of a mosque in a predominantly Christian neighborhood sparked the violence.
"The clashes had no religious basis but rather an affray hijacked in the name of religion by demons with a human face," said Lerama.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/326-killed-in-Nigerias-inter-religious-clashes/articleshow/5501865.cms
AFP, 26 January 2010
KANO (Nigeria): Nigerian police said on Tuesday at least 326 people died in Muslim-Christian clashes last week in the central Plateau State.
"From the figures available to the police ... 326 people were killed in the recent violence," police spokesman Mohammed Lerama told AFP.
However, other estimates from medical and aid workers and religious and community leaders put the toll at more than 550.
The killings erupted in Jos on January 17 and spread to nearby towns and villages in the following days.
Christian resistance to the building of a mosque in a predominantly Christian neighborhood sparked the violence.
"The clashes had no religious basis but rather an affray hijacked in the name of religion by demons with a human face," said Lerama.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/326-killed-in-Nigerias-inter-religious-clashes/articleshow/5501865.cms
Christians and Muslims killing each other and the police spokesman says:
(1) Religion has nothing to with it.
(2) The deaths were caused by demons.
