Tag: clashes Jos

According to Insideworld.com the death toll in Nigeria’s clashes in Jos rises to 500. Initially authorities estimated 100 victims. Also the South African website IOL.co.za writes about the 500 people killed Sunday “in communal clashes near Nigeria’s central city of Jos, says a state governor’s advisor, revising a previous toll of about 100 dead”. “We […]

At least 100 people were killed near the Nigerian city of Jos, the scene of recent sectarian violence which left hundreds dead, a government official and witnesses said Sunday. “There has been an attack on Dogo Nahawa. Over a hundred people have been killed — most of them women and children,” a government official who […]