Posted: 03/08/2010 at 4:31pm | IP Logged

This home was burned earlier this year during another religious clash in Nigeria.

Sectarian Violence Leaves Hundreds Dead in Nigeria

by Brian Hutt, The Christian Post

JOS, NIGERIA - As many as 500 people may have been killed in attacks on Sunday on two predominantly Christian villages near the Nigerian city of Jos.

One reporter with the independent Nigerian news network Channels counted more than 200 bodies, mainly women and children, according to The Guardian.

Peter Gyang, who lost his wife and two children in the attacks, was quoted by Agence France Presse as saying: “Gunshots were fired just to scare people out of their houses only to be macheted as they fled into the bush.

Locals believe the attacks were carried out in revenge for the killing of hundreds of Muslims in January. The area has been blighted for years by tensions between the Muslim Fulani ethnic group and the Christian Berom ethnic group.

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