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| Gunmen Kill 3 Christians Near Nigerian Flashpoint City |
| 2012-03-13 |
| [An Nahar] Gunmen rubbed out three Christians near the flashpoint central city of Jos, hours after 10 people were killed in a suicide kaboom of a Catholic church, the Plateau state government said Monday. The gunnies struck late Sunday in a village south of the city, where Christian-Mohammedan tensions were running high after the church attack, government front man Pam Ayuba told Agence La Belle France Presse. "Unknown gunnies, in an apparent ambush late Sunday, waylaid and rubbed out three people and injured two others -- all Christians -- in Chugwi village," Ayuba said. "We suspect that the attackers were herdsmen. They left with the handsets of those killed and called numbers on their phones to alert their relations that they were responsible for the killings," he said from the scene of the attack. Ayuba, who is a native of the Christian village, said no arrests have yet been made. A jacket wallah went kaboom!" outside a Roman Catholic church in Jos on Sunday, killing seven people and sparking panic in which security forces shot three others dead. |
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