Nigerian Sectarian Clashes Leave at Least 42 Dead in Jos
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At least 42 people died in Nigeria’s central city of Jos in four days of clashes between Christian and Muslim ethnic groups, religious leaders said.
Twenty Christians were killed by gunshots and machetes, according to Abraham Hassan, a spokesman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, while the corpses of 22 Muslims are in the city’s central mosque, Sabo Shuaib, spokesman for the Jama’tul Nasril Islam group, said today by phone.