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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Central Nigeria on red alert after over 100 killed |
| 2010-03-08 |
| More killings in Jos Nigeria's acting president put security forces on alert after machete wielding gangs massacred at least 100 people, mainly women and children, near the central city of Jos, officials said. Witnesses described how victims were caught in animal traps and fishing nets as they tried to flee their attackers, who hacked them to death in what appeared to have been a well-organised attack. But the raiders also set fire to dozens of houses in the nearby villages of Ratsat and Zot, all less than 10 kilometres (seven miles) from Jos and home to members of the Berom (75% Christian) ethnic group. "These villages were attacked by Fulani (muslim) herdsmen killing scores of people and burning houses," Ratsat resident David Daniel Daniel told AFP. Other residents and local rights activists also blamed the attacks on the Fulani ethnic group. In Jos, Yusuf Alkali, a member of the Fulani ethic group, said he believed the attacks were a reprisal for the killings of four herdsmen two weeks ago when a Fulani settlement was attacked by ethnic Berom youths. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #2 Latest reports have 500 christians dead. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2010-03-08 17:43 |
| #1 In all four corners of the earth, the angel of death works... |
| Posted by: newc 2010-03-08 00:44 |