Nigerian Clashes Kill Five at Opposition Party Rally
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Fighting between rival factions of a Nigerian opposition party in the central city of Jos sparked clashes between Muslims and Christians that killed five people, a military official said.
A meeting of the Congress for Progressive Change, whose candidates will run for office in general elections in April, erupted in “a scuffle and it went into the streets,” Brigadier-General Umaru Hassan, commander of the military task force in charge of security in the area, said today by phone from Jos, the capital of Plateau state.