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Nigerian Violence Takes More Lives

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 30, 2008

Updated: 11/30/2008 12:56 am

JOS, Nigeria - Mobs burned homes, churches and mosques Saturday in a second day of riots, as the death toll rose to more than 300 in the worst sectarian violence in Africa's most populous nation in years.

Sheikh Khalid Abubakar, the imam at the city's main mosque, said more than 300 bodies were brought there on Saturday alone and 183 could be seen laying near the building waiting to be interred.

Those killed in the Christian community would not likely be taken to the city mosque, raising the possibility that the total death toll could be much higher. The city morgue wasn't immediately accessible Saturday.

Jos, the capital of Plateau State, has a long history of community violence that has made it difficult to organize voting.

Authorities imposed an around-the-clock curfew in the hardest-hit areas of the central Nigerian city.

The Associated Press

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